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molecular clocks

molecular clocks is the plural of molecular clock.

Meaning of molecular clock

Noun

molecular clock (plural molecular clocks)

  1. A technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged.

Questions about molecular clocks

What is molecular clocks the plural of?
Molecular clocks is the plural of molecular clock.

Words near molecular clocks in the dictionary

  1. molecular beam epitaxy
  2. molecular biologist
  3. molecular biologists
  4. molecular biology
  5. molecular clock
  6. molecular clocks
  7. molecular cloud
  8. molecular clouds
  9. molecular compound
  10. molecular compounds
  11. molecular core

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