Assortment: A way in which meiosis produces new combinations of genetic information. Paternal and maternal chromosomes line up randomly during synapsis, so each daughter cell is likely to receive an assortment of maternal and paternal chromosomes rather than a complete set from either.

 

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Assortment: A way in which meiosis produces new combinations of genetic information. Paternal and maternal chromosomes line up randomly during synapsis, so each daughter cell is likely to receive an ass . . . View Full Definition

Principle Of Independent Assortment: Mendels second law; holds that during gamete formation, alleles in one gene pair segregate into gametes independently of the alleles of other gene pairs. As a result, if enough gametes are p . . . View Full Definition

Reassortment: A mixing of the genetic material of two similar viruses that are infecting the same cell.

Independent Assortment: During meiosis each of the two copies of a gene is distributed to the germ cells independently of the distribution of other genes.

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