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Homologous  adj.  Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure. Especially:
(a)
(Geom.) Corresponding in relative position and proportion. "In similar polygons, the corresponding sides, angles, diagonals, etc., are homologous."
(b)
(Alg.) Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion.
(c)
(Chem.) Characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. See Homology, 3.
(d)
(Biol.) Being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and the fore foot of a horse are homologous that correspond in their structural relations, that is, in their relations to the type structure of the fore limb in vertebrates.
Homologous stimulus. (Physiol.) See under Stimulus.






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... drawn to the fact that during the reducing division of nuclei which contain chromosomes of unequal size, gemini are constantly produced by the pairing of chromosomes of the same size. This led to the conclusion that the pairing chromosomes are homologous, and that one comes from the father, the other from the mother. (First stated by T.H. Montgomery in 1901 and by W.S. Sutton in 1902.) This evidently applies also to the pairing of chromosomes in those reduction-divisions in which ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



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