homology

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However, homology between trunk somites and such head segments has been controversial.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

To find these implicit pictures, mathematicians use a technique known as persistent homology.

From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2022

The various metabolic processes and core functions in E. coli share homology with higher organisms.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Serpell and other scientists tend to characterize this position as an overcorrection, but those who espouse it often begin by questioning the homology between dogs and wolves.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2021

One of these relations is called analogy and the other homology, and it is very desirable to bear clearly in mind the distinction which exists between these two relations.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various