Synteny

As synteny, derived from the Greek " syn" ( σύν ) for " together " and " tainia " ( ταινία ) for " band", similarities in sequence of genes or gene segments on different chromosomal sections when comparing the genomes of in genomics two different biological species referred to. The degree of synteny between the two types is determined by comparison of the base sequences of deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA), and is a measure of the genetic relationship of the two kinds.

The degree of synteny and its determination is an important tool in studies on phylogeny or evolution of biological species and in the systematic classification of a kind, the existence of synteny between the genomes of related species is therefore evidence for Darwin's theory of evolution.

The English term " synteny " was introduced in 1971 by John H. Renwick from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine at the fourth International Congress of Human Genetics in Paris, where the term in genetics originally testified that in synteny of these loci on the same chromosome are.