单词 | molecular clock |
释义 | molecular clock n. 1. An assumed approximately constant rate of change over evolutionary time in the nucleotide sequences of DNA molecules and the amino acid sequences of protein molecules. 2. A technique based on this assumption, in which the amount of time since two species or other taxa diverged from a common ancestor is estimated by measuring the number of differences between certain gene or protein sequences of the taxa. |
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