Human evolution

Human evolution

Otherwise known as anthropogeny; anything of or relating to the study of the origin and evolution of Homo sapiens as a distinct species from other hominids, great apes and placental mammals.

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Piriform aperture

Archaeology; Human evolution

The pear-shaped nasal opening of the skull; anterior nasal aperture.

Testcross

Archaeology; Human evolution

A cross of an individual of unknown genotype, usually expressing the dominant phenotype, with a homozygous recessive individual in order to determine the genotype of the individual.

Conjugation

Archaeology; Human evolution

A process having a unidirectional transfer of genetic information through direct cellular contact between a donar ("male") and a recipient ("female") bacterial cell.

Deoxyribonuclease (DNase)

Archaeology; Human evolution

An enzyme that catalyses the degradation of DNA to nucleotides.

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 ...

Genetic recombination

Archaeology; Human evolution

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 ...

Nuclease

Archaeology; Human evolution

An enzyme that catalyses the degradation of a nucleic acid by breaking phosphodiester bonds. Nucleases specific for DNA are termed deoxyribonucleases (DNases), and nucleases specific for RNA are ...