- Industry: Archaeology
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A package of four muscle that join in a large tendon surrounding the patella and attaching to the anterior tuberosity of the tibia. The largest of these, rectus femoris, has an ilium attachment on the anterior inferior iliac spine and brim of the acetabulum. The bundle flexes the hip and extends the knee.
Industry:Archaeology
Alternate chemical forms in which DNA (or RNA) bases are able to exist.
Industry:Archaeology
Having only a single set of chromosomes, half the number in a normal somatic cell. Gametes are normally haploid.
Industry:Archaeology
Ripples or undulations on the smooth surface of rocks moving from the direction of applied force.
Industry:Archaeology
The extra sequences at the N-terminal ends of proteins that are necessary and sufficient for posttranslational transport into organelles.
Industry:Archaeology
The term Mendel used to describe the factors that carried hereditary information and were transmitted from parents to progeny through the gametes. We now know these factors by the name genes.
Industry:Archaeology
A cloning vector in which DNA fragments several hundred kilobase pairs long can be cloned in yeast. A YAC is a linear vector with a yeast telomere at each end, a centromere, a sequence for autonomous replication in yeast, a selectable marker for yeast, and a polylinker.
Industry:Archaeology
A pair of homologous, synapsed chromosomes during the first meiotic division.
Industry:Archaeology
An aberrant, aneuploid state in a normally diploid cell or organism in which one chromosome is missing, leaving one chromosome with no homolog.
Industry:Archaeology
