Isotype

Isotype (from Greek  ἴσος isos "equal", and Greek  τύπος typos "essence, character") denotes:

• the nomenclatory isotype in botany, see type (nomenclature) #Botany ,
• the products of genes that occur several times in the genome through duplication and that have a very similar function,
• the five different classes of immunoglobulins, see antibodies .

In mineralogy, substances that belong to the same structural type are called isotypes ; one then speaks of isotype .

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