In certain combinations, the relation between linkage and breaking of the linkage (‘crossing-over’ as we shall call it) is shown at once.
- copulation
- Cormophyta
- cormus
- correlation
- costs of reproduction
- countershading
- courtship
- creode
- critical biology
- critical theory of evolution
- crossing-over
- Crustacea
- cryobiosis
- crypsis
- cryptobiosis
- Cryptogamia
- cryptophyte
- cultural ethology
- cultural evolution
- cultural inheritance
- cultural inheritance system
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crossing-overcrossing-over (ger.)
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The formation of a genotype exhibiting characters derived from both parents when the characters are known to be linked; hence also, the interchange of segments between chromatids of homologous pairs of chromosomes which causes this breakdown of linkage. (OED 2011)
- 1912
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Morgan, T.H. & Cattell, E. (1912). Data for the study of sex-linked inheritance in Drosophila. J. exper. Zool. 13, 79-101: 79.
- 1982
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crossing over An exchange of corresponding segments between chromatids of homologous chromosomes during meiosis, rarely also during mitosis.
Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 60.