- Branche: Archaeology
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The use of chemical techniques, such as neutron activation analysis, or X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, for determining the incidence of trace elements in rocks. These methods are widely used in the identification of raw material sources for the production of stone tools.
Industry:Archaeology
In geology, a division of an era, as the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era.
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
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
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
The variation from the wild-type condition in either chromosome number or chromosome structure.
Industry:Archaeology
conto da pagare, il conto da pagare, questa è una definizione di prova.
Industry:Accounting
