- Industry: Archaeology
- Number of terms: 25214
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
The space enclosed by the side of the skull and the zygomatic arch, which is occupied by the temporalis muscle as it passes from its mandibular attachment to its attachment on the cranium.
Industry:Archaeology
A multiplicity of forms in which the frequencies of the different variations do not differ significantly over time because of selection against the extremes (homozygotes).
Industry:Archaeology
A type of quadrupedal walking used by chimpanzees or gorillas, in which the forearms rest on the dorsal surface of the middle phalanges of the hands.
Industry:Archaeology
Forward protrusion of the facial region, as a whole or in part (see alveolar prognathism), (cf. orthognathous).
Industry:Archaeology
The consenus sequence in mammalian cells, YNCURA, (where Y is a pyrimidine, R is a purine, and N is any base) to which the free 5' end of the intron loops and binds to the A nucleotide in the sequence during intron splicing.
Industry:Archaeology
The specific proteins in polypeptide synthesis (translation) that read the chain termination codons and then initiate a series of specific events to terminate polypeptide synthesis.
Industry:Archaeology
A branching diagram, or dendrogram, based on genealogy and used to represent phyletic relationships (rates of evolutionary divergence are ignored).
Industry:Archaeology
A multivariate statistical technique which aims to develop spatial structure from numerical data by estimating the differences and similarities between analytical units.
Industry:Archaeology
