homologies
- plural of homology.
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Newer technologies can be used to help distinguish homologies from analogies.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Trying to decipher the proper connections, especially given the presence of homologies and analogies, makes the task of building an accurate tree of life extraordinarily difficult.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Our analyses begin to integrate macroscopic information about morphology, organismal physiology, and descriptive embryology of these deuterostomes with genomic information about gene homologies, gene arrangements, gene novelties and non-coding elements.
From Nature ● Nov. 17, 2015
When scientists started sequencing DNA, they were able to find homologies between genes as well.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2010
Yet Oken is an eminent physiologist, and has made, it is said, important discoveries in respect to the cranial homologies, which have been developed in Professor Owen’s work on the Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward