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Homologous structures refer to structures on different species that are similar in function and their evolutionary origin.

Analogous structures are similar in function but do not share a similarity in evolutionary origin.

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Are similarities between sharks and dolphins homologous or analogous?

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What are the difference between homologous organ and analogous organ?

Homologous organs have similar embryonic origin and basic structure whereas Analogous organs have different embryonic origin and basic structure. Homologous organs may look different and may perform different function; e.g., forelimb of a man and flipper of a whale. Whereas Analogous organs look alike and perform same functions; e.g., Wings of birds and insects.


What is the difference between vestigial homologous and analogous?

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What is the difference between homologous analogous and vestigial structures?

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How do analogous structures and homologous structures differ?

Homologous features of animals are a lot more recent in contrast to evolution, where as analogous dates far back. Homologous features are similar in structure, but perform different functions, such as the human hands and dolphin flippers, which makes room to allow recent evolution comparisons while analogous consists of wings of a bee and a bird, which are completely different. When trying to determine evolutionary relationship between two species, biologists concentrate on homologous features, as analogous features would be considered useless in this case.


What is the difference between homologous structures and analogous structures?

Homologous = same origin, different function (arms vs. wings) Analogous = same function, different origin (panda thumb)


Distinguish between homologous structures and analogous structures?

Homologous structures are features with a similar anatomical origin but have different functions, indicating common ancestry, such as the limbs of vertebrates. Analogous structures have similar functions but different anatomical origins, suggesting they evolved independently due to similar environmental pressures, like the wings of birds and insects.


Two species have homologous structures what do these homologous strcutures show about the evolutionary relationship between the two species?

The presence of homologous structures (for example, the bone structure in chimpanzee arms, human arms, and whale flippers) indicates that the species sharing that homologous structure share a common ancestor.


Homologous structure between birds and dolphin?

they live for a while


Why the homologous structures are evidence of evolutionary relationship?

They show similarities between organisms structure. if the similarities are large then it shows that those organisms share a common ancestor.


What is the difference between analogous and homologous?

Analogous means that the structures have different origins, but they do the same things. Homologous means the opposite: that they have the same origins but are adapted to do different functions.


Are bird wings and butterfly wings homologous structures?

There are a few different similarities between the wing of a butterfly and the wing of a bat. Both are used to fly for example.