recombination
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
recombination/riːkɒmbɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
▶noun
- 1 the process of recombining things.
- 2 Genetics the rearrangement of genetic material, especially by crossing over in chromosomes or by the artificial joining of DNA segments.
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