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ShareGenetic recombination is the transmission-genetic process by which the combinations of alleles observed at different loci in two parental individuals become shuffled in offspring individuals.
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In molecular biology, recombination generally refers to the molecular process by which genetic variation found associated at two different places in a continuous piece of DNA becomes disassociated (shuffled).
In this process one or both of the genetic variants are replaced by different variants found at the same two places in a second DNA molecule.
One mechanism leading to such molecular recombination is chromosomal crossing over.
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