👉 Homoplasmic is a term used in the field of biology and biochemistry to describe a type of cell that is composed entirely of identical copies of itself. This concept was first introduced by the Russian biologist Anatoly Nekrasov in 1927, who called it "homologous". The homoplasmic cells are not genetically identical but share similar genetic material and have a similar structure. In other words, they are essentially "equivalent" or "identical
