verb
- past tense and past participle of homologise; to make homologous or to establish a correspondence between structures or parts
Usage: chiefly British spelling (American: homologized); technical term used in biology, anatomy, and comparative studies
Examples
- The researcher homologised the skeletal structures of different primate species to identify evolutionary relationships.
- Scientists homologised the genes across multiple organisms to understand their shared ancestry.
- The anatomist homologised the limb bones of mammals and birds to demonstrate their common origin.
- By homologising the DNA sequences, the team revealed significant similarities between distantly related species.
- The study homologised various morphological features to construct a comprehensive phylogenetic tree.