Homology

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Homology may refer to:

• Homology (anthropology), analogy between human beliefs, practices or artifacts owing to genetic or historical connections
• Homology (biology), similarities between nucleic or amino acid sequences / structures owing to shared ancestry
• Homology (chemistry), the relationship between compounds in a homologous series
• Homology (mathematics), a procedure to associate a sequence of abelian groups or modules with a given mathematical object
• Homology modeling, a method of protein structure prediction
• Homology (sociology), a structural 'resonance' between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole

Homologous may refer to:

• Homologous chromosomes, chromosomes in a biological cell that pair up (synapse) during meiosis
• Homologous series (chemistry), a series of organic compounds having different quantities of a repeated unit
• Homologous temperature, the temperature of a material as a fraction of its absolute melting point

Homological may refer to:

• Homological word
• Homological algebra

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