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Word: homology (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

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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