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What is a molecular clock?

What is a molecular clock? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A technique that uses the mutation rate of biomolecules to deduce the time in prehistory when two or more life forms diverged.
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In addition, AhR signaling affects molecular clock genes to influence glucose metabolism.
Although a molecular clock is rejected, divergence times may still be estimated by allowing the rates of evolution to evolve along lineages.
We introduce a parametric model that relaxes the molecular clock by allowing rates to vary across lineages according to a compound Poisson process.
The wide range of dates is due to the different records used to calibrate the molecular clock.
Divergence times among clades in the ochrocephala complex were estimated using two different molecular clock calibrations.
Using the molecular clock method, it was possible to determine the age of the major branches of the orchid family.

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