Sentences with phrase «formed during meiosis»
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Thawing caused ice crystals to form and prevented meiosis, the cellular process during which an egg's chromosomes split up from 46 to 23, to be united later with 23 chromosomes from a sperm cell.
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This genetic recombination takes place during a specialized form of cell division called meiosis.
In meiosis, a precursor cell — primordial germ cell — produces four spermatozoids during spermatogenesis, while only one oocyte is formed during oogenesis (the other three cells die during the process).
The Cole lab found that fewer crossovers formed during juvenile waves of meiosis compared to adult waves, because juvenile waves of meiosis employ alternative DNA repair pathways that are less likely to generate crossovers.