- Industry: Archaeology
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Mutations that alter the identity of particular segments, transforming them into copies of other segments.
Industry:Archaeology
The opening formed by the temporal notches on the petrous temporal and occipital bones.
Industry:Archaeology
A poorly understood evolutionary process that produces uniformity of sequence in multiple copies of a gene.
Industry:Archaeology
An artifact's context usually consisits of its immediate matrix (the material surrounding it, e.g. gravel, clay, rock, or sand), its provenience (horizontal and vertical position within the matrix), and its association with other artifacts (occurrence together with other archaeological remains, usually in the same matrix).
Industry:Archaeology
In eukaryotes, a transcriptional regulatory element that decreases RNA transcription rather than stimulating it like other enhancer elements.
Industry:Archaeology
The genes that are localized to a particular chromosome by using an experimental approach (literally "together thread"; the term is similar to linked).
Industry:Archaeology
The use of as few assumptions as possible in an explanation or theory, "Occam's razor" is an example.
Industry:Archaeology
