Sentences with phrase «called chromosome segregation»
This complex biological machine gathers the chromosomes together and sorts them at the time of cell division, then sends them to the opposite poles of the daughter cells in a process called chromosome segregation.
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The researchers then confirmed that the number of singly paired chromosomes — also called univalents — was higher in older mouse and even human egg cells, indicating that age - related segregation errors could be tracked back to increased numbers of prematurely separated chromosome pairs.
Errors in chromosome segregation are a major cause for birth defects and embryonic lethality in humans, and the most common genetic alteration in human tumors is aberrant chromosome numbers, called aneuploidy.