Crossword-Solution: HOMOPLASY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Homoplasy | n. | See Homogeny. |
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| state of being derived from an individual of the same species as the recipient | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CAEZME
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eruption
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Sentences with HOMOPLASY (5)
Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence of both groups from a univentricular ancestor.
The probability is against agreement being due to homoplasy when the agreement involves a number of really separate (not correlated) coincidences.
Homoplasy can only be assumed when the coincidence is of a simple nature, and is such as may be reasonably supposed to have arisen by the action of like selective conditions upon like material in two separate lines of descent.[4] So, too, degeneration is not to be lightly assumed as the explanation of a simplicity of structure.
The resemblances which the members of one class often present to the members of another class in regard to the form of the limb-branches (rami) of the parapodia and the formation of tagmata (regions) are not hastily to be ascribed to common inheritance, but we must consider whether they are not due to homoplasy--that is, to the moulding of natural selection acting in the different classes upon fairly similar elements under like exigencies.
Ray Lankester's term, _homoplasy_, has passed into currency as designating such cases where different genetic material has been pressed by similar conditions into similar moulds.