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CSU BIOL 3216 Chapter 5
Genetics
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Biology
Undergraduate 3
09/17/2010

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Genetic linkage
Definition
The tendency of alleles of different genes on the same chromosome to be inherited together.
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Genetic recombination
Definition
At meiosis, the process that generates haploid products of meiosis with genotypes different from each of the two haploid genotypes that first constituted the meiotic diploid.
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Interference
Definition
Situation in which a crossover in one region of a chromosome affects the likelihood of a crossover in an adjacent region.
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Linkage group
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A set of genes that show linkage one to another, corresponding to all of the genes on a chromosome.
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Linkage map
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An abstract map that shows the position and order of genes on chromosomes, based on their recombinant frequencies.
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