10806 IUPAC Gold Book - homeosis 10.1351/goldbook.10806 10806 current 1 Replacement of part of one segment of an insect or other segmented animal by a structure characteristic of a different segment, especially through mutation. PAC, 2016, 88, 713. 'Glossary of terms used in developmental and reproductive toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 764 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-1202) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10806/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10806/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10806/plain Citation: 'homeosis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10806 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-14T22:44:15+00:00