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Synonyms for homologous

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Antonyms for homologous

having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function

corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics

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Despite this work, theridiid palpal sclerite names (homologies) are unstable.
Relational descriptors: Functional genomics naturally involves many relationships in the data: phylogenic hierarchies (the tree of life), homologies (genes sharing a common ancestor), directed graphs relating functions, and so on.
(1986: 528), concerning hybrid combinations involving Hordeum murinum L., states that "it can thus be concluded from the low pairing frequency observed with polyploids of this species that no homologies existed with any other species," it is only correct provided homology is interpreted in Dewey's sense, e.g., as pairing behaviour at metaphase I of meiosis, but is nonsensical if homology is defined in any other way.
When a number of such presumed homologies are combined into a phylogenetic analysis, a cladogram is identified in which the number of evolutionary origins of hypothesized homologies is minimized or in which their joint probability is maximized (as the sole criterion in "maximum parsimony" methods, or under additional a priori constraints in various other methods).
Congruence refers to correspondence of the homology in question to other putative or known homologies. In the case of lophophorate and pterobranch feeding morphology, an a priori assessment of which morphological features are evolving independently cannot be accurately made.
are coming into existence contemporaneously with the dramatic shift in political economic organization that is being brought about by flexible specialization?" Add "body" to the list of homologies after "resistance" (the meaning of which changes in the new context).
Their topics include the case for and against animals remaining as property of humans, animal ethics and legal status, the concept of consistency in rights, the constitution of being a person, behavioral homologies, cognitive beasts, the evolution of morality, animal experimentation, why animals own their genes and therefore own themselves, pain, veterinary medicine's defense to the law, vegetarianism, and the arguing point that animals are not things.
Some topics considered include groups with infinitely generated integral homologies, orbits in finite group actions, groups and semisymmetric graphs, and groups with all non- subnormal subgroups of finite rank.
All recent serotine bat specimens clustered with genotype 5 (EBLV1) sequences, and homologies within subgenotypes EBLV1a and EBLV1b were 99.0%-100% and 99.2%-100%, respectively.