homologous

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“But we do share a lot of homologous genes with these seemingly very distant animals.”

From Science Magazine

Writing in Nature, Yang et al.6 report structural data that shed light on how the protein RecA facilitates a key early step in the process of homologous recombination in bacteria.

From Nature

The authors suggest that axis separation might suppress ineffectual intersister recombination in favour of homologous recombination between chromosomes.

From Nature

Ideally, the researchers would have compared the human MTG cells with a similar, or homologous, area in the mouse brain, but it is not clear that there is one.

From Scientific American

They might instead favour something like ‘homologous recombination DNA repair deficiency syndrome’.

From Nature