- Look up homology, homological,
homologous, or
homologue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Homology may
refer to:
Homology (biology), any characteristic...
- A pair of
homologous chromosomes, or homologs, is a set of one
maternal and one
paternal chromosome that pair up with each
other inside a cell
during fertilization...
- In
organic chemistry, a
homologous series is a
sequence of
compounds with the same
functional group and
similar chemical properties in
which the members...
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regardless of
current functional differences.
Evolutionary biology explains homologous structures as
retained heredity from a
common ancestor after having been...
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Homologous recombination is a type of
genetic recombination in
which genetic information is
exchanged between two
similar or
identical molecules of double-stranded...
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Homologous desensitization occurs when a
receptor decreases its
response to an
agonist at high concentration. It is a
process through which,
after prolonged...
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Homologous temperature expresses the
thermodynamic temperature of a
material as a
fraction of the
thermodynamic temperature of its
melting point (i.e....
- Non-
homologous end
joining (NHEJ) is a
pathway that
repairs double-strand
breaks in DNA. It is
called "non-
homologous"
because the
break ends are directly...
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multiple sequences are used to
indicate which regions of each
sequence are
homologous. The term "percent homology" is
often used to mean "sequence similarity”...
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Serial homology is a
special type of homology,
defined by Owen as "representative or
repetitive relation in the
segments of the same organism."
Ernst Haeckel...
