- Industry: Archaeology
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The genetic material of a cell, complexed with protein and organized into a number of linear structures. It literally means "colored body," because the threadlike structures are visible under the microscope only after they are stained with dyes.
Industry:Archaeology
The variance in the frequency of an allele among a group of populations.
Industry:Archaeology
A gene mutation in which a base-pair change in the DNA causes a change in an mRNA codon, with the result that a different amino acid is inserted into the polypeptide in place of one specified by the wild-type codon.
Industry:Archaeology
A specific location (1) on a chromosome, matched to the corresponding position on the other chromosome of a pair, the site of the maternal and paternal alleles that are often considered together as a gene; (2) defined within a paleontological or archaeological site.
Industry:Archaeology
Borings taken from the Arctic and Antarctic polar ice caps, containing layers of compacted ice useful for the reconstruction of paleoenvironments and as a method of absolute dating.
Industry:Archaeology
The part of an mRNA molecule that specifies the amino acid sequence of a polypeptide during translation.
Industry:Archaeology
A covalent bond in RNA and DNA between a sugar and a phosphate. Phosphodiester bonds form the repeating sugar-phosphate array of the backbone of DNA and RNA.
Industry:Archaeology
A probability distribution in statistics, graphically displayed as a bell-shaped curve.
Industry:Archaeology
