See Also: Flavoproteins(health)

homeobox (iou) and Flavoproteins (health)


homeobox (iou)



homeobox noun. Also homoeobox. L20.
[from HOMOEO(TIC + BOX noun2 (as first discovered in homoeotic genes of Drosophila fruit flies).]
Genetics. Any of a class of closely similar sequences which occur in various genes and are involved in regulating embryonic development in a wide range of species.
Comb.: homeobox gene a gene containing a homeobox.

Flavoproteins (health)


Flavoproteins are yellow proteins that serve as enzymes critical to the ability of cells in the body to respire, to breath. (The "flavo-" is borrowed from the Latin "flavus", yellow). Flavoproteins are, in Other words, respiratory enzymes. As enzymes they catalyze (speed) what are technically termed oxidation-reduction reactions. The first yellow enzyme was discovered.