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- Look up chiasm, chiasma, chiasmata, or chiasms in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chiasm may refer to: Chiasm (musical project), an electronic music...
- In genetics, a chiasma (pl.: chiasmata) is the point of contact, the physical link, between two (non-sister) chromatids belonging to homologous chromosomes...
- recombination events results in crossovers, which create physical links known as chiasmata (singular: chiasma, for the Gr**** letter Chi, Χ) between the homologous...
- Achiasmate meiosis refers to meiosis without chiasmata, which are structures that are necessary for recombination to occur and that usually aid in the...
- immediately saw the great importance of Janssens' cytological interpretation of chiasmata to the experimental results of his research on the heredity of Drosophila...
- chromosome. In chromosomal crossovers, non-sister (homologous) chromatids form chiasmata to exchange genetic material during the prophase I of meiosis (See Homologous...
- portions of the chromosomes' lengths. Structures called chiasmata are the site of the exchange. Chiasmata physically link the homologous chromosomes once crossing...
- between the two homologous chromosomes at a site called a chiasma (plural: chiasmata). This physical strand exchange and the cohesion between the sister chromatids...
- presence and absence of chiasmata. The dynein light chain Dlc1 protein is also required for segregation, specifically when chiasmata are absent. Molecular...
- of mixed maternal and paternal descent.: 99  Visible junctions called chiasmata hold the homologous chromosomes together at locations where recombination...