Homologous vs Allogenic - What's the difference?
homologous | allogenic |
Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
: (biology) Corresponding to a similar structure in another life form with a common evolutionary origin.
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: (chemistry) Belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds that differ only by the addition of a CH2 group.
: (genetics) Having the same morphology as another chromosome.
Having an external cause, or source; exogenous.
(geology) Formed in another location and transported.
(medicine, biology, genetics) Genetically distinct, but of the same species.
As adjectives the difference between homologous and allogenic
is that homologous is showing a degree of correspondence or similarity while allogenic is having an external cause, or source; exogenous.homologous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Lobules, homologous in structure, recur again only in the Gondwanalandic families Lepidolaenaceae and Jubulopsidaceae thus in the Lepidolaenineae.
- Flippers and hands are homologous structures .