Homologous vs Homozygous - What's the difference?
homologous | homozygous |
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.
As adjectives the difference between homologous and homozygous
is that homologous is showing a degree of correspondence or similarity while homozygous is of an organism in which both copies of a given gene have the same allele.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 .