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Homologous   /hɑmˈɑləgəs/   Listen
Homologous

adjective
1.
Having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function.  Antonyms: analogous, heterologous.
2.
Corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species.  Antonyms: autologous, heterologous.






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"Homologous" Quotes from Famous Books



... heads, long necks, narrow chests, and long flanks; but these blemishes were removed by judicious crosses and selection. The long smooth wool was also correlated with smooth horns; and as horns and hair are homologous structures, we can understand the meaning of this correlation. If the Mauchamp and ancon breeds had originated a century or two ago, we should have had no record of their birth; and many a naturalist would no doubt have insisted, especially in the case of ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... incomplete to the complex and perfect. 2. Ascending metamorphoses, including those changes of form manifested in the same adult organism by the several parts of which it consists—those parts being typically identical or homologous, such as the parts of the flower, or, in animals, the vertebrae, &c. 3. Collateral metamorphoses, comprising those permutations of form and function manifested in homologous organs in the different groups of organisms, classes, ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters



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