crossing-over, crossover

crossing-over, crossover
Reciprocal exchange of material between two paired chromosomes during meiosis, resulting in the transfer of a block of genes from each chromosome to its homologue. In contrast to genetic recombination (2), which is a phenotypic phenomenon, c. is genotypic. Any even number of crossing-overs between two loci will cancel out phenotypically and no recombination will occur.
- somatic crossing-over c. that occurs during the mitosis of somatic cells, in contrast to that which occurs in meiosis.
- uneven crossing-over, unequal crossing-over c. that happens when the breaks do not occur at precisely homologous points in two chromatid strands, and hence results in localized duplication of genetic material in one chromatid and complementary deletion in the other.

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