homology
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However, homology between trunk somites and such head segments has been controversial.
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024
Mathematician Jose Perea of Northeastern University and a team of computational biologists used persistent homology to find periodic biological processes—those that repeat at regular intervals.
From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2022
DNA analysis shows that emus and ostriches share more genetic homology with flying birds which live in the same region than with each other.
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
His comparison of languages may be compared to the earlier labors of students in comparative anatomy who mistook merely external resemblances for structural homology.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.
Vocabulary lists containing homology
Evolutionary Biology - High School
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Evolutionary Biology - Middle School
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: homo
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