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What is a recombination?

What is a recombination? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Combination a second or subsequent time.
  2. (genetics) The formation of genetic combinations in offspring that are not present in the parents
  3. (chemistry) The reverse of dissociation
  4. (astrophysics) The process by which the plasma of electrons and protons produced after the Big Bang condensed into hydrogen, or the epoch in which this process occurred.
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The proteins encoded by these genes are thought to participate in the biochemical steps that lead to meiotic recombination.
He simply watched peas to learn how their natural system of genetic recombination worked.
Yeast has been used for many years to study DNA recombination, although not in this context.
This is particularly so for sheltered chromosomes without recombination such as the Y chromosome in mammals.
However, intense male recombination hotspots should still increase average recombination rates.
If that changes with a mutation or a recombination or reassortment of one virus to the other, that could change everything.

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