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单词 molecular clock
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molecular clockn.

Brit. /məˌlɛkjᵿlə ˈklɒk/, U.S. /məˌlɛkjələr ˈklɑk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: molecular adj., clock n.1
Etymology: < molecular adj. + clock n.1
1. A clock based on the behaviour of individual molecules.
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1965 Science 8 Oct. 173/1 The second of Universal Time..could be realized..by astronomical measurements, mechanical clocks, molecular clocks, oscillating crystals, or atomic clocks.
2. Biology. A regular or consistent molecular phenomenon that enables the rate of a process to be assessed or governs the rate at which it occurs; esp. an assumed or inferred consistency in the rate at which molecular changes accumulate during the evolution of particular proteins (or the genes encoding them), from which the timing of evolutionary events may be estimated; a nucleotide (DNA) or amino-acid sequence whose rate of change has been calibrated, and which can be used to estimate the relative dates of evolutionary divergences.
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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > other types of clock
watch-clock1592
German clock1598
quarter clocka1631
wheel-clock1671
table clocka1684
month clock1712
astronomical clock1719
musical clock1721
repeater1725
Tompion1727
pulling clock1733
regulator1735
eight-day clock1741
regulator clock1750
French clock1757
repetition clock1765
day clock1766
striker1778
chiming clock1789
cuckoo-clock1789
night clock1823
telltale1827
carriage clock1828
fly-clock1830
steeple clock1830
telltale clock1832
skeleton clock1842
telegraph clock1842
star clock1850
weight-clock1850
prison clock1853
crystal clock1854
pillar scroll top clock1860
sheep's-head clock1872
presentation clock1875
pillar clock1880
stop-clock1881
Waterbury1882
calendar-clock1884
ting-tang clock1884
birdcage clock1886
sheep's head1887
perpetual calendar1892
bracket clock1894
Act of Parliament clock1899
cartel clock1899
banjo-clock1903
master clock1904
lantern clock1913
time clock1919
evolutionary clock1922
lancet clock1922
atomic clock1927
quartz clock1934
clock radio1946
real-time clock1953
organ clock1956
molecular clock1974
travelling clock2014
1965 E. Zuckerkandl & L. Pauling in V. Bryson & H. J. Vogel Evolving Genes & Proteins 148 The changes that occur at a fairly regular over-all rate would be expected to be those that change the functional properties of the molecule relatively little... There may thus exist a molecular evolutionary clock.]
1974 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 71 885/1 I think that the rejection or accumulation of appropriate sequences of residues including a glytaminyl or asparaginyl residue during evolution establishes a molecular clock in each protein molecule. These molecular clocks may serve as timers of development, turnover, and aging in proteins, cells, and organisms.
1975 Systematic Zool. 24 212/2 The model that has been used to calibrate the albumin ‘molecular clock’ is based on two assumptions.
1983 J. R. S. Fincham Genetics xviii. 540 Similar comparisons have been made for a number of other ubiquitous proteins, and it is apparent that some change faster than others... If each protein is a molecular clock, the clocks do not all run at the same rate.
1990 G. B. Curry in D. E. G. Briggs & P. R. Crowther Palaeobiol. ii. i. 95/1 The molecular clock must first be calibrated using sequences from organisms which have well dated divergence events—in effect organisms which have a good fossil record.
1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) iii. 58 It was only when Sarich and Wilson used their molecular clock to set the time of divergence of one particular higher primate that the trouble began.
1998 Science 16 Jan. 349 It has been proposed that telomere shortening is the molecular clock that triggers senescence.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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