Sister exchange

Financial market that operates regularly and is organized in accordance with fixed customs and practices, e.g. security, forex, option and commodity exchanges. The key exchanges ...

exchange

Professional careers; Sales

The transfer of an object, idea, service, etc from one person or organisation to another in return for something desired.

exchange

Anthropology; Cultural anthropology

The distribution of goods and services among members of a society.

exchange

Law; Contracts

A voluntary transfer of property for value resulting in a gain or loss.

interstitial wear

Archaeology; Human evolution

See interproximal wear.

one gene-one enzyme hypothesis

Archaeology; Human evolution

The hypothesis, based on Beadle and Tatum's studies in biochemical genetics, that each gene controls the synthesis of one enzyme.

formation processes

Archaeology; Human evolution

Those processes affecting the way in which archaeological materials came to be buried, and theirsubsequent history afterwards. Cultural formation processes include the deliberate ...

subspecies

Archaeology; Human evolution

A geographically defined aggregate of local populations which differs with various degrees of significance (depending on the author) from other such subdivisions of the species.

variance

Archaeology; Human evolution

A statistical measure of how values vary from the mean. See also standard deviation.

euchromatin

Archaeology; Human evolution

Chromatin that is condensed during division but becomes uncoiled during interphase.

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Lake of Canet Saint Nazaire

The lake of Canet Saint Nazaire is a salty lake that has more than 200 species of both migrant and non-migrant birds, which make it to be unique and a ...