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

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

To broaden the search for wheat-specific genes and genes with reduced sequence homology but high expression that may have been placed into the LCC class in annotation v1.0, all LCC gene models were re-classified.

From Nature • Nov. 14, 2017

But the most definite indication of the mandrake's homology with the pearl is provided by the legend that "it shines by night".

From The Evolution of the Dragon by Smith, G. Elliot