- Branche: Archaeology
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A vertical plane extending from side to side that divides the body into front and back portions.
Industry:Archaeology
Gene product in placental mammals that sets the switch toward male sexual differentiation.
Industry:Archaeology
Refers to the amount of force placed on the objective piece from either percussion or pressure. Load is generally increased when going from pressure flaking to percussion flaking and from soft hammer to hard hammer. The application of a force.
Industry:Archaeology
The different restriction maps that result from different patterns of distribution of restriction sites. They are detected by the presence of restriction fragments of different lengths on gels.
Industry:Archaeology
The study of a population's main life-history parameters - its growth, size, composition, and the age-specific rates of births and deaths.
Industry:Archaeology
A change in gene frequencies between parents and offspring in a population that is due to the small size of each generation when populations themselves are small. Small samples usually do not exactly duplicate the characteristics of the large population they are drawn from.
Industry:Archaeology
A mutation caused by a substitution of one base pair for another.
Industry:Archaeology
A vertical plane on the midline that divides the body into a right and left half.
Industry:Archaeology
General term used to describe a very fine-grained sedimentary rock. Mud-sized particles that have solidified under water or underground are often identified as mudstone.
Industry:Archaeology
Refers to the chemical elements and mineral from which rocks are created.
Industry:Archaeology
