What is "homologues"

Usage examples of "homologues".

It should, however, be borne in mind that leaves and their homologues, as well as flowerpeduncles, have gained this power, in innumerable instances, independently of inheritance from any common parent form.

Not the actual people, mind you—though I’d love to rob a few graves and sift bones for genes suitable for cloning—but homologues made from the records they left in life, written up in nucleic acids by yours truly, and given the breath of life.

So it employed their lower homologues and in that manner successfully produced an almost identical model.