Colinearity
<B>1.</B> In general, the arrangement of one sequence in the same linear order as another sequence.<BR><B>2.</B> In developmental genetics, the arrangement of genes on chromosomes in the same order as they are activated along the body axis during development, a principle discovered in 1957 by Edward Lewis.<BR><B>3.</B> In molecular genetics, the correspondence between the linear order of the nucleotide codons in the DNA, the sequence of messenger RNA, and the order of amino acids in the protein