In genetics, this symbol is added after the main haplogroup to represent a paragroup.
In genetics, this symbol is added after the main haplogroup to represent a paragroup. In chemistry, two of these symbols indicate when the polarization function is added to a basis set, while one of them can denote an antibonding molecular orbital. Though not a bar, this symbol can denote the complex conjugate of a matrix. In C and C++, this symbol is used to declare a pointer variable, while in Ruby and Python, two of these symbols are used to express (*) exponents. It denotes a wildcard character in Unix,  and this symbol can be used after a forward slash to begin block comments in most programming languages. On a normal keyboard, shift-8 yields, for ten points, which symbol that looks like a star and is often used as a multiplication sign?
In genetics, this symbol is added after the main haplogroup to represent a paragroup.
{asterisk}s (prompt on {star} or similar)