"homeotic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 176:",
          "text": "A certain segment of the body, in other words, had done something appropriate to a different segment of the body. Something had gone wrong with the homeotic genes.",
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          "text": "Further probings revealed the existence of a clutch of master control genes, each directing the development of a section of body, which were dubbed homeotic (from a Greek word meaning ‘similar’) or hox genes.",
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  "word": "homeotic"
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