- Industry: Archaeology
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A CAT scan is a radiographic technique that can display "slices" taken through bones or skulls that will show the shape and extent of internal cavities.
Industry:Archaeology
A usually single-stranded polymeric molecule consisting of ribonucleotide building blocks. RNA is chemically very similar to DNA. The three major types of RNA in cells are ribosomal RNA (rRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), and messenger RNA (mRNA), each of which performs an essential role in protein synthesis (translation). In some viruses, RNA is the genetic material.
Industry:Archaeology
Front to back direction, as taken along the tooth row arch, the length of the tooth.
Industry:Archaeology
Refers to a rock of fine-grained aggregate crystalls less than 3 μm in diameter.
Industry:Archaeology
The degree to which a particular genotype is expressed in the phenotype.
Industry:Archaeology
The stage that follows diplonema and during which the four chromatids of each tetrad are most condensed and the chiasmata often terminalize.
Industry:Archaeology
A cell or collection of cells (as in a mycelium) possessing genetically different nuclei (regardless of their number) in a common cytoplasm.
Industry:Archaeology
A mutant gene that increases the spontaneous mutation frequencies of other genes.
Industry:Archaeology
A variable taxons that contains more than one taxon of the next lower category, such as a species with several subspecies or races.
Industry:Archaeology
