HOMOLOGOUS

• (adj.) corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species

  "a homologous tissue graft"

• (adj.) having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function

  "the wing of a bat and the arm of a man are homologous"

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