" Homogeny " is the creation of a being from two individuals that belong to the same species, so that from that conception a new organism will emerge that will be similar to its parents.
This word is practically in disuse and when it was used, it was done in biology, more precisely in the branch of physiology, so it is not a common word in popular speech and can be found in old biology manuals.
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The etymology of "homogenia" comes from the Greek and means "similarity in structure." It is made up of "homo", which means equal; "Geno" which means to engender, plus the suffix "ia", which refers to the quality.
Meaning
The Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy does not recognize "homogeneity", although it does recognize "homogeneous" or "homogeneous", words that are written and sound similar and that therefore it is necessary to differentiate them.
The first refers to a being that results from the sexual union of two individuals of the same species. Meanwhile, the second is the quality of equality of the members of the same type or group.
"Homogeny" is a somewhat old term, used mainly in physiology, which is the branch of biology that studies living things and their functioning.
So, "homogeny" means that a being is of the same race, while in biology it is the correspondence of origin that they have organs or other organic parts.
Not necessarily the two organisms that derive a new individual have the same characteristics as their ancestors, however it is possible that the independent development of that ancestral-like structure has occurred, despite coming from two different lines of descent.
This similarity is called "homologous" and it is the opposite of "homoplasia". The "homology", for its part, is the study that compares living beings, establishing an existing relationship between two different organic fractions when their genetic ancestry has the same evolutionary genesis.
A "homogenesis" can also be called "homogenesis" (it is more common to find it written this way). Both refer to when, after reproduction, a new organism is similar to its parents.
This concept is more used in the plant and animal world and it is about the reproduction of the same characteristics in later generations. Another definition of "homogenesis" is provided by the National University of Córdoba in Argentina, which indicated that it is the alternation of two generations within the same nuclear phase of the biological cycle. That is, it is made up of two haploid generations, or two diploid ones.
Finally, “homogenia” can be used to graphically or metaphorically depict a reality, in terms of the impossibility of achieving acts or events.
Usage examples
- "The resistance to homogeneity is palpable in the processes of construction of contemporary youth subjectivities: it is increasingly difficult to maintain that there is" the young man "or a" way of being young. "
- "The obstetrician doctor completely forbade me to use my hair dye or to paint my nails, since the product can impact during the homogeneous period of pregnancy."
- "From a seed, egg of a bird or the embryo of an animal or a human, this process occurs by homogeneity".
- "In the Diaguitas tables with the deputies, territorial recognition was raised through the lineages of the inheritances of the homogenies."
- "One of the notes that is most difficult for me to understand in physiology is the one that refers to homogeny, and I also find very little material in this regard to clear my doubts."
References
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- (2019). "Diaguitas tables seek to raise awareness about the importance of the El Olivar site." Recovered from: diarioeldia.cl