- Branche: Archaeology
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The investigatory technique which involves taking soil samples at regular intervals from the surface of a site, and measuring their phosphate content and other chemical properties.
Industry:Archaeology
Traits that show a continuous variation in phenotype over a range.
Industry:Archaeology
A subdiscipline of anthropology dealing with the study of human biological or physical characteristics and their evolution.
Industry:Archaeology
Continuous, gradual variation of a trait. In the context of geographic patterns of a trait's variation, cline gradients are the lines that are perpendicular to the clines and therefore mark the path of the trait's maximum change.
Industry:Archaeology
One of three types of tetrads possible when two genes are segregating in a cross. The PD tetrad contains four nuclei, all of which are parental genotypes, with two of one parent and two of the other parent.
Industry:Archaeology
Suture between the parietal and temporal bones, in the form of a beveled edge with the temporal overlapping on the outside.
Industry:Archaeology
The point where the anterior border of the foramen magnum crosses the midline.
Industry:Archaeology
A discrete structure within the cell that is bounded by a nuclear membrane. It contains most of the genetic material of the cell.
Industry:Archaeology
