- Branche: Archaeology
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The breadth dimension of an incisor or canine, from the lip side to the tongue side.
Industry:Archaeology
The science of heredity that involves the structure and function of genes and the way genes are passed from one generation to the next.
Industry:Archaeology
A space or gap between adjacent teeth in a tooth row, often present to accommodate a projecting canine from the opposing jaw; in the mandible the diastema is between the canine and anterior premolar, in the maxilla between the lateral incisor and canine.
Industry:Archaeology
Bone of a coarse, fibrous texture that results from rapid, relatively disorganized growth; normally replaced later in development by more geometrically organized bone.
Industry:Archaeology
Mutations in the germ-line of sexually reproducing organisms may be transmitted by the gametes to the next generation, giving rise to an individual with the mutant state in both its somatic and germ-line cells.
Industry:Archaeology
Smoothly rounded bulges of bone found on the frontal bone of the skull at its center and extending over the inner portion of the upper orbital border.
Industry:Archaeology
1) Outer surface or layer, the dense outer layers of most bones 2) chemical or mechanical weathered surface on rocks.
Industry:Archaeology
