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homologous
1. Used of structures of traits having common ancestry but not necessarily retaining similarity of structure, function, or behaviour.
2. Sharing a similar or related structure, position, function, or value.
2. In biology, sharing the same origin but having a different function, as do, e.g., the wing of a bird and the fin of a fish.
3. In medicine, produced from identical tissue.
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homologous chimera
A chimera formed by cells or tissues from organisms of the same species but with a different genotype.

It exists in humans most commonly when the blood of dizygous twins mixes in utero (the organ in a woman’s body where babies develop before birth).

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