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But on rare occasions, chromosomes can break and fuse, leading those linkage groups to mix.
—Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
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1921, in the meaning defined above
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“Linkage group.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/linkage%20group. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
linkage group
noun
: a set of genes at different loci on the same chromosome that except for crossing-over tend to act as a single pair of genes in meiosis instead of undergoing independent assortment
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