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Homology, an Uncommon card
In biology, homology is similarity in anatomical structures or genes between organisms of different taxa due to shared ancestry, regardless of current functional differences.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 150 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Evolutionary biology explains homologous structures as retained heredity from a common ancestor after having been subjected to adaptive modifications for different purposes as the result of natural selection.
- The term was first applied to biology in a non-evolutionary context by the anatomist Richard Owen in 1843.
- Homology was later explained by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in 1859, but had been observed before this from Aristotle's biology onwards, and it was explicitly analysed by Pierre Belon in 1555.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Homology article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Homology
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Homology (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Волков Владислав Петрович, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

