Also called radiocarbon dating, the process
used to determine the age of an object by measuring its radiocarbon
content.
An inherited trait only expressed by an
organism in its physical appearance when the gene controlling it is
in the homozygous condition; the recessive allele of that gene.
In plants and animals, the capacity to
replace lost or damaged parts by growing new ones; also, asexual
reproduction in which an entire organism may be generated from a
part of its parent.
The process by which human beings, animals,
and plants create more of their own kind.
Reproductive Isolating Mechanism (RIM)
Biological properties of organisms that
prevent one species from breeding with another and, thus,
distinguish the various species from each other.
Situation in which a mutant allele mutates
back into the original allele.
A substance similar to DNA that carries out
DNA's instructions for making specific proteins.