[Pipet Devel] Locus (meaning, etc).

[deanne at density.biop.umich.edu]

BTW, "Locus" is not strictly a biological word, and only recently "became"
a word to mean a location of a chromosome. It's a Latin word, which means
"locality". This is the actual meaning of locus, from Webster's...


LOCUS

1.A locality; a place. 
         2.A center or focus of great activity or intense
concentration: the cunning exploitation of
            loci of power; the insulation from normal American society
(Clifton Fadiman). 
         3.Mathematics. The set or configuration of all points whose
coordinates satisfy a single
            equation or one or more algebraic conditions. 
         4.The position that a given gene occupies on a chromosome.