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- noun Plural form of
homologue .
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Examples
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In this figure those parts which are identified as homologues of the wings extend wholly across the interior of the food bowl, and have the forms of triangles with smaller triangular spurs at their bases.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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If able to produce organic compounds of wide variety, plus semi-structured, but not complexly "machined" bio-materials - such as homologues of wood, ivory, natural fibres, leather, nacre, natural etc. - it would be an ideal "add-on" for a fab working at the micro to macro scale.
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His vagaries on the subject of "homologues" leave no doubt about that, and, in spite of Cuvier, he believed, though not very firmly, in the existence of one single type of structure.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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I think the evolution of the bacterial flagellum is far too improbable to happen without deliberate fine-tuning of the events that lead up to it, even though most of the flagellar components have precursor homologues.
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The possession of certain features (homologues) can help locate the position of an individual in the hierarchy of life.
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Soon, the UCSF group was racing through multiple species to look for homologues of src.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In the mid-1970s, Bishop and Varmus began to use the viral src gene to hunt for its homologues, using this “sticking” reaction.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Soon, the UCSF group was racing through multiple species to look for homologues of src.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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There are no national political parties in Belgium even the Greens, who focus their energy on saving the environment, are split into French and Dutch homologues.
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In the mid-1970s, Bishop and Varmus began to use the viral src gene to hunt for its homologues, using this “sticking” reaction.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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