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homologousIn biology, a term describing an organ or structure possessed by members of different taxonomic groups (for example, species, genera, families, orders) that originally derived from the same structure in a common ancestor. The wing of a bat, the arm of a monkey, and the flipper of a seal are homologous because they all derive from the forelimb of an ancestral mammal. The wing of a bird and the wing of an insect are not homologous, even though they are both used for flying, because they are not derived from the same structure. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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All recent serotine bat specimens clustered with genotype 5 (EBLV1) sequences, and homologies within subgenotypes EBLV1a and EBLV1b were 99. 5 Hip hop remains a largely male-dominated, music-based activity with strong homologies between its four elements. Despite his insistence upon the practical force of ritual, and despite his repeated, if oblique, references to the quite dramatic changes which modernity has wrought in Ban Com Ping, Rhum remains primarily concerned with mapping the structural homologies between domains of the household and the polity, between architecture, ideology, and political order. |
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