Molecular-clock
noun
1.
the changes in the amino acid sequences of proteins that take place during evolution and speciation, and from which the dates of branchings of taxonomic groups can be deduced.
noun
the rate at which nucleotide (amino acid) substitutions occur in a given DNA (protein) sequence
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