Both of these images show organically produced fiber - and both the fiber in the donkey's fur and the fiber in the American white ash have extremely similar wavey structure.
Is there a similar gene in the wood fiber and hair fiber which is associated with the wavy-ness?
What type of search engine would analyze images and return the genetics?
Why not?
Is this what Wolfram [1]|Alpha is attempting to achieve [1]?
Top image is the spine ridge (back) of a feral donkey in Bonaire, WI.
Bottom image is a split piece of curly American white ash originally discussed here on Realneo [2].
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Links:
[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/faqs.html
[2] http://realneo.us/content/curly-american-white-ash-fraxinus-americana
[3] http://li326-157.members.linode.com/system/files/Donkey-fur-in-Bonaire-WI-DSC00090.jpg
[4] http://li326-157.members.linode.com/system/files/Curley-white-ash.jpg