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crossover fixation

The addition of extra copies of segments of DNA on the same strand by unequal crossing over during meiosis. An explanation for the existence of satellite DNA, which are highly-repeated, non-transcribed sequences of DNA with no clear function. An alternative explanation to saltatory replication.


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