The discovery shows that plant sex regions can 'jump' and indicates that the phenomenon may be adaptive by gathering and locking new genes into linkage with sex. The transfer of gene cassettes across ...

Translocation is a genetic abnormality in which part of a chromosome moves to another chromosome. Chromosomes are genetic structures within cells that hold genes. When translocation occurs, it causes ...

Translocations, in genetics, happen when chromosomes break and the pieces attach to other chromosomes. This mixing of genetic material has important results. The resultant chromosomes are lacking in ...

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STRUCTURAL heterozygosis is the existence in heterozygous state of an interchromosomal or intrachromosomal rearrangement. Fragmentation of two chromosomes and the mutual exchange through reunion of ...