- Industry: Archaeology
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A specific site on a chromosome at which the double helix denatures into single strands and continues to unwind as the replication fork(s) migrates.
Industry:Archaeology
Sometimes referred to as zooarchaeology, this involves the identification and analysis of faunal species from archaeological sites, as an aid to the reconstruction of human diets and to the understanding of the contemporary environment at the time of deposition.
Industry:Archaeology
Specialized proteins (antibodies) secreted by B cells that circulate in the blood and lymph and that are responsible for humoral immune responses.
Industry:Archaeology
A process by which parents with different genetic characters give rise to progeny so that genes in which the parents differed are associated in new combinations. For example, from A B to a b the recombinants A b and a B are produced.
Industry:Archaeology
A specific type of base-pair substitution mutation that involves a change in the DNA from one purine-pyrimidine base pair to the other purine-pyrimidine base pair at a particular site (e.g., AT to GC).
Industry:Archaeology
An enzyme that catalyzes the degradation of a nucleic acid by breaking phosphodiester bonds. Nucleases specific for DNA are termed deoxyribonucleases (DNases), and nucleases specific for RNA are termed ribonucleases (RNases).
Industry:Archaeology
A stage during which the migration of the daughter chromosomes to the two poles is completed.
Industry:Archaeology
