- Industry: Archaeology
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Of a marriage pattern (e.g., marriage with a cross-cousin, a brother's widow, etc.), socially valued and desirable, but not conjoined.
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 cross between two individuals that are both heterozygous for the same pair of alleles (e.g., Aa x Aa). By extension, the term also refers to crosses involving the purebreeding parents that differ with respect to the alleles of one locus (e.g., AA x aa).
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
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
In kinship terminologies, the siblings of lineal relatives (parents, grandparents) and their descendants.
Industry:Archaeology
Theoretical approach which, when applied ot human societies, sees changes as the product of large-scale environmental, economic, and social forces with the assumption that what individual humans wish, desire, believe, or will is not a significant factor.
Industry:Archaeology
