Sentences with phrase «recombine during meiosis»

To understand his hypothesis, consider that during the formation of a woman's eggs, paternal and maternal X chromosomes recombine during meiosis.

Not exact matches

But when Abrams's team examined flies that don't make functional p53, they found that these flies recombined their genomes during meiosis far less often than normal flies.

During meiosis, homologous chromosomes, one from the mother and the other one from the father, pair with each other and exchange parts (recombine).