"bear close resemblance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to closely resemble someone or something, or to be very similar to them. Example: The siblings bear close resemblance to each other, with their strikingly similar features and mannerisms.
Some iPS-cell lines are likely to bear close resemblance to embryonic stem cells.
Indeed, the advertising bureau's seven new ad sizes bear close resemblance to ads that appear in columns and boxes in print publications.
When we project the simulation data on the pulling coordinate x (the end-to-end distance), the resulting traces show two-state hopping patterns that bear close resemblance to experiment (Fig. 4a).
In the Accra Plains, anomalously low annual mean precipitation figures vary from 40 inches (1,000 mm) to less than 30 inches (760 mm), and the precipitation variability and the vegetation bear close resemblance to conditions in the northern savanna zone.
Members of the family Apiaceae bear close resemblance to each other, and have many characteristics in common.
The objectives of feature selection for predictive classification and marker identification bear close resemblance.
There is no certain way to tell, but details in the painting bear closer resemblance to those in the print than the original painting.
Divergence with respect to the second principal component is not unexpected given that ESC bear closest resemblance to epiblast cells in the late blastocyst rather than immature ICM cells (Boroviak et al., 2014).
(Police say it bore close resemblance to a semi-automatic pistol).
Some of these examples involved specific turns of phrase or passages that bore close resemblance to work published elsewhere.
