Medical Definition of Crossover fixation
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The addition of extra copies of segments of DNA on the same strand by unequal crossing over during meiosis.
An explanation for the existence of satellite DNA, which are highly-repeated, non-transcribed sequences of DNA with no clear function. An alternative explanation to saltatory replication.
(03 Jul 1999)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crossover Fixation
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