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Word: homology
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Noun:
- A homologous relationship
- biology A correspondence of structures in two life forms with a common evolutionary origin, such as flippers and hands.
- chemistry The relationship between the elements in the same group of the periodic table, or between organic compounds in a homologous series
- genetics The presence of the same series of bases in related genes
- mathematics A system of quotient groups associated to a topological space
- mathematics A theory associating a system of quotient groups to each topological space
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