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crossing over

NOUN
  1. the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis

How To Use crossing over In A Sentence

  • Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
  • However, chromosome pairs would sometimes break apart and exchange pieces - a process known as crossing over.
  • Crossing over The exchange of material between homologous chromatids by the formation of chiasmata.
  • So, I mean, the bottom is the pop culture crossing over with the political culture kind of goes haywire and goes crazy about sex and sexual scandal. Writing 'The Good Wife': Art Imitates Life?
  • Crossing over ensures segregation of homologous chromosomes in meiosis I.
  • So, any American crossing over to Moscow who reaches Helsinki is safe. COVER STORY
  • And the foal took a habit of crossing over the stream to the other field where the _garran_ was; and it got to be so friendly with him, and so fond of him, that at last it was hardly it would come back at all. Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish
  • The plant and seed pigmentation components can be lost independently by mutation or unequal crossing over, leading to different derivatives.
  • Crossing over from pop music stardom to movie stardom is a killer assignment, no matter how big you are as a pop phenomenon.
  • They're a blues band who have succeeded in crossing over to jazz.
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