Sentence examples for morphological resemblances from inspiring English sources

Parallel evolution, the evolution of geographically separated groups in such a way that they show morphological resemblances.

The evolutionary relationships between the families placed in Sapindales, and between them and other orders, are becoming clarified on the basis of DNA sequence data, morphological resemblances, and chemistry.

DPC 17624 shows some occlusal morphological resemblances to G. hylaeus in having a relatively high crown, a short and labially interrupted metalophulid I, and a relatively straight diagonal crest, and in lacking an anterior arm of the hypoconid and an anterior arm of the entoconid.

Fischer and Tassy [ 15] take the position that alleged hyracoid morphological resemblances to tethytheres are either convergences or misconstrued, on the argument that hyraxes are in fact perissodactyls or closely allied to them.

Mueller et al [ 6] reported that the global numbers for P. malariae and P. ovale are unknown and the burdens of P. ovale and P. malariae are even more underrepresented in surveys where microscopy is employed since there are morphological resemblances between P. ovale and P. vivax.

Hybrid genital morphology was not intermediate between parental species and the morphological resemblance to parental strains was cross-dependent.

Interestingly, the recently uncovered pithoviruses are phylogenetically closer to the mimivirus/marseillevirus group despite a morphological resemblance to pandoraviruses that have ovoid rather than icosahedral morphology [[ 3]].

Thus, not only have the naturalized plants in North America retained their morphological resemblance to their counterparts in Europe, but their seed ecophysiology also closely resembles them.

Leaf and cone fossil fragments stretching back to the Jurassic Period (200 to 145 million years ago) also bear a strong morphological resemblance to Wollemia.

The morphological resemblance between some European beads and the earlier Indo-Pacific beads is also striking.

Morphological resemblance between local stretching in our dynamo models and local observed geomagnetic secular variation may suggest the presence of stretching at the top of the Earth's core.