heterologous
heterologous
Definition
het·er·olo·gous (het′ər äl′ə gəs)
adjective
- consisting of differing elements; not corresponding, as parts of different organisms or of the same organism that are unlike in structure or origin
- Med.
- derived from a different species, as a graft
- not normal in structure, organization, etc.
Etymology: < hetero- + Gr logos, relation, word (see logic) + -ous
het′·er·ol′·ogy (-jē) noun
heterologous
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- expression: Heterologous expression of plant virus genes that suppress post-transcriptional gene silencing results in suppression of RNA interference in Drosophila cells.
- host: We are also developing rapid methods for cloning these enzymes from diverse Eukaryotes, deleting genes and expressing them in heterologous hosts.
- system: Functional analyzes of the Hero gene in heterologous systems are being investigated in a view to produce cyst nematode resistance transgenic plants.
- antigen: All sheep in the ' infection and treatment regimes ' showed an early antibody response to both homologous and heterologous antigens.
- challenge: Little evidence was found showing that immunity to infection builds up following successive heterologous infection challenges.
- transgenes: The claim in the title " multiple heterologous transgenes show similar behavior in diverse genetic backgrounds " is unjustified, to say the least.
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