genetic recombination in a sentence
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- During this exchange process, a diploid cell is formed that contains the full genetic repertoire of both parental cells, and genetic recombination is facilitated.
- The near-absence of genetic recombination in mitochondrial DNA makes it a useful source of information for scientists involved in population genetics and evolutionary biology.
- Since the only humans who have a Y chromosome are males, Y-linked traits are passed only from father to son, with no interchromosomal genetic recombination.
- In eukaryotes, genetic recombination during meiosis can lead to a novel set of genetic information that can be passed on from the parents to the offspring.
- Genetic variation is the result of mutations, genetic recombinations and alterations in the karyotype ( the number, shape, size and internal arrangement of the chromosomes ).
- During meiosis in gametes, homologous chromosomes experience genetic recombination and segregate randomly into haploid daughter cells, each with a unique combination of maternally and paternally coded genes.
- The two were the result of an experiment in genetic recombination in which two parent cells were separated into complementary haploid gametes, and recombined into two embryos.
- Dorion Sagan, co-author with Lynn Margulis of " What Is Sex ? " and " Origins of Sex : Four Billion Years of Genetic Recombination, " reports.
- The zygote then divides into four daughter cells by which time genetic recombination has created a new embryo with 23 pairs of chromosomes, half from each parent.
- Although the disease cannot be stopped by removal of the alternate host, the life cycle is disrupted and the rate of mutation is decreased because of reduced genetic recombination.