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- noun Plural form of
chiasma .
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After this, the chromosomes cross over at certain points called chiasmata, where they exchange genetic material and create different combinations.
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After this, the chromosomes cross over at certain points called chiasmata, where they exchange genetic material and create different combinations.
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Various forms of a gene at a given locus are called chiasmata alleles autosomes loci chromatids
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It revealed why crossing-over should be suppressed between the centromere and the nucleolus organizer in organisms in which chiasmata terminalize, from the initial loaction of a crossover to the end of the arm of the chromosome.
Nobel Lecture The Significance of Responses of the Genome to Challenge 1983
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Late prophase I. nuclear envelope dissolves nucleolus completely disappears crossing over of chromatids within bivalents may occur to form a chiasma (pl. chiasmata) spindle is formed at end
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