verb
- present participle of homologise; to make homologous; to show or establish correspondence or similarity between structures or sequences
Usage: chiefly British spelling (American: homologizing); technical term used in biology, genetics, and comparative anatomy
Examples
- The researchers are homologising the DNA sequences from different species to identify evolutionary relationships.
- By homologising the skeletal structures, scientists can trace the common ancestry of mammals.
- The team spent weeks homologising the protein sequences across multiple organisms.
- Homologising these anatomical features revealed surprising similarities between distant species.