Sentence examples for analogous characters from inspiring English sources

Homoplastic (analogous) characters may also be similar in appearance, but have actually evolved from different ancestors.

For example, the wings of birds and bats are analogous characters.

During the laboratory session, students should identify homologous and analogous characters among the organisms before constructing the phylogenetic tree.

This was done, he admitted, because "Iro", an analogous character type in Ulisse, had proved popular with theatregoers.

Kilpatrick has an analogous character in fictional Clay Davis, the charismatic state senator who appears in The Wire, shaking down developers, political candidates and criminals for cash.

By contrast, when all pairwise similarities among genera are analogous, the character is purely convergent and evolved independently in each of the four river dolphin genera (e.g. length of mastoid process on parsimony trees).

In the present paper we show that if τ is unitary and generic then π is determined by τ, up to isomorphism, via a character identity entirely analogous to the character identity occurring in the automorphic induction process for p-adic fields.

But "Rules of the Game" contains no character analogous to the castaway Tom Keefer, a disturbing figure who is closely tied to the deathly aspects of the swamp.

In recent work, it is shown that there is a complete description of minimal obstruction sets for three-state characters analogous to a well-known result on obstruction sets for binary characters (the four gamete condition) [ 3].

He was a very junior person, somewhat analogous to the character in the movie.

I wondered whether I could do something analogous with a character from my novel "A Visit From the Goon Squad": create a cartoon version of that person, for example — or, in this case, a spy-thriller version.