What is functional analogy?

Answer 1

As you probably know, an analogy is a thing that helps someone to understand a concept. For instance an example of an analogy is: "The Nucleus of a cell is like a Brain, because the nucleus of a cell controls what goes on in it." The analogy for Cell Nucleus is Brain in this case. A FUNCTIONAL analogy is an analogy of an object or thing that doesn't necessarily look, smell, feel, taste, or sound like your to-be-analogized thing, but it has a similar purpose. An example of this is: "The cell membrane of an animal cell is like a bunch of security guards because they both control what goes in/out." I hope I was helpful.