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Homomorphic

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ho·mo·mor·phism  (hm-môrfzm, hm-)
n.
1. Biology Similarity of external form or appearance but not of structure or origin.
2. Zoology A resemblance in form between the immature and adult stages of an animal.
3. Mathematics A transformation of one set into another that preserves in the second set the operations between the members of the first set.
homo·morphic, homo·morphous adj.


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The model of ethnicity on the next page, which highlights key representative (not comprehensive) socio-cultural features (a homomorphic model) is an outsider's model (etic model) that is "imposed" on the available data.
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rugosa has homomorphic sex chromosomes of subtelocentric (X and Y) and telocentric (X and Y) types, respectively, in both sexes.
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