Sentences with phrase «chromosomes during reproduction»
Starting in 1958, just five years after the discovery of DNA's double - helix structure, researchers suspected that a specific gene controls the orderly pairing of wheat chromosomes during reproduction.
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Yeast studies had suggested that Mus81 was critical for a specific stage in cell division that's essential for chromosome recombination during reproduction.
During reproduction, chromosome pairs normally swap genes and cancel out each other's mutations.
These heteromorphic sex chromosomes, i.e. morphologically distinguishable sex chromosomes, are mainly no longer recombining during reproduction.