- Industry: Archaeology
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A statistic that measures the strength of the association between two variables.
Industry:Archaeology
Changing to fit, or respond to, the requirements of the environment.
Industry:Archaeology
Often confused with site catchment analysis, this is a method of achieving a fairly standardized assessment of the area habitually used by a site's occupants.
Industry:Archaeology
Species formation when there is geographical isolation (cf. sympatric speciation).
Industry:Archaeology
The percentage of an allele at a particular locus relative to all the different alleles at the locus, usually calculated for a population.
Industry:Archaeology
A cryptocrystalline fibrous quartz, usually light colored and translucent.
Industry:Archaeology
A process whereby cells that already have antibodies specific to an antigen on their surfaces are stimulated to proliferate and secrete that antibody.
Industry:Archaeology
An error in replication or other alteration of the nucleotide base sequence creating a change in the sequence of base pairs on a DNA molecule. If the change occurs in the DNA of a somatic cell, the mutation may cause a change in the organism's phenotype (leading, for example, to cancer) but will not affect the organism's offspring; only mutations in the germ cells can cause heritable changes in the offspring.
Industry:Archaeology
In physics, the breaking apart of nuclei into smaller constituent nuclei, releasing energetic particles in the process as there is less total energy.
Industry:Archaeology
