{"id":48144,"date":"2024-10-11T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=48144"},"modified":"2024-10-11T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T17:53:00","slug":"biology-homologous-vs-analogous-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-homologous-vs-analogous-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: homologous vs analogous structures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring biology, terms related to evolution arise. The tutor mentions homologous and analogous.<\/h2>\n<p>\nHomologous structures are ones that might not have the same function now, but have developed from a common structure seen in the embryos. A human arm and a whale&#8217;s flipper are homologous.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnalogous structures are ones that perform the same function, but don&#8217;t develop from a corresponding structure. The human nose and insect antennae are examples of analogous structures.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/genent.cals.ncsu.edu\/bug-bytes\/head\/antennae\/\">genent.cals.ncsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bio.libretexts.org\/Courses\/Lumen_Learning\/Fundamentals_of_Biology_I_(Lumen)\/05%3A_Module_2-_History_of_Life\/5.21%3A_Homologous_and_Analogous_Traits#:~:text=Homologous%20structures%20share%20a%20similar,are%20analogous%20but%20not%20homologous.\">bio.libretexts.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring biology, terms related to evolution arise. The tutor mentions homologous and analogous. Homologous structures are ones that might not have the same function now, but have developed from a common structure seen in the embryos. A human arm and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-homologous-vs-analogous-structures\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: homologous vs analogous structures<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[3406,3405],"class_list":["post-48144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","tag-analogous-structures","tag-homologous-structures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48147,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48144\/revisions\/48147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}