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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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