- Industry: Archaeology
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A hypothesis of genetic variation proposing that natural populations contain little genetic variation as a result of strong selection for one allele.
Industry:Archaeology
A system whereby two sets of social groups or chategories exist in the same society, one based on patrilineal descent and the other on matrilineal descent.
Industry:Archaeology
Ordered chain of actions, gestures, and processes in a production sequence (e.g. of a stone tool or a pot) which led to the transformation of a given material towards the finished product. The concept, introduced by Andre Leroi-Gourhan, is significant in allowing the archaeologist to infer back from the finished artifact to the procedures, the intentionality in the production sequence, and ultimately to the conceptual template of the maker.
Industry:Archaeology
The 3' end of mRNA to which 50 to 250 adenine nucleotides are added as part of mRNA posttranscriptional modification.
Industry:Archaeology
The procedures whereby the risks of prospective parents having a child who expresses a genetic disease are evaluated and explained to them. The genetic counselor typically makes predictions about the probabilities of particular traits (deleterious or not) occurring among children of a couple.
Industry:Archaeology
A domestic group or composite of domestic groups consisting of two or more nuclear families linked together through parent and child or through siblings.
Industry:Archaeology
A representation of the genetic distance separating nonallelic gene loci in a linkage structure.
Industry:Archaeology
Any large molecule that stimulates the production of specific antibodies or that binds specifically to an antibody.
Industry:Archaeology
Living mainly in trees; for instance, arboreal quadrupeds are animals that use all four limbs in walking and running on trees limbs.
Industry:Archaeology
