How to Use recombination in a Sentence

recombination

noun

• The recombination process is the origin of what’s known as omicron XE.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2022
• This data gives clues to the recombination rate as well, DeLucia said.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 8 May 2020
• The number of chromosomes, whether the organism is diploid, the variations in the rate of recombination.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2011
• When the body creates sperm or eggs, the cells engage in some reshuffling known as genetic recombination.
  — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018
• These new genes were likely acquired through a process called DNA recombination.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• As if mutation wasn’t enough of a problem, the virus has another trick up its sleeve: recombination.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2022
• Ultimately, the authors found that the queen showed levels of genetic recombination 100 times more than seen in the cloned offspring of the worker bees.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 June 2021
• That means the common method of viruses picking up new skills, called recombination, cannot operate here.
  — Steven Quay and Richard Muller, WSJ, 6 June 2021
• The longer from the time of admixture the smaller and smaller the blocks will become, as recombination slices apart long blocks and recombines ancestral components.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2013
• Viral recombination happens when two different parent strains of the virus enter the same cell.
  — Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2021
• In nature the process is called recombination—a virus exchanges chunks of itself with another closely related virus when both infect the same cell.
  — Richard Muller and Steven Quay, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
• With each generation the pairs of chromosomes—one from each parent—are snipped and pasted with one another; a process known as recombination.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• Normally, this recombination causes peaks in one half-beam’s waves to overlie troughs in the other’s, and vice versa, resulting in darkness.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• During egg and sperm formation, the corresponding chromosomes line up next to each other and swap some stretches of DNA in a process called recombination.
  — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2019
• Generally, recombination can happen when two variants infect one person at the same time and invade the same cells.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2022
• The recombination of genes that happens when our parents’ chromosomes pair up and the random mutations that inevitably result.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
• The recombination, coming a decade after the companies split up, was a controversial one.
  — Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg.com, 24 Jan. 2023
• Because of recombination, siblings only share about 50 percent of the same DNA, on average, Dennis says.
  — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018
• This mishmash of subvariants is not unexpected, Rutherford said, and viruses go through such recombination all the time.
  — al, 8 Apr. 2022
• The colonists often threw each other over for neighbors in various spouse-swapping recombinations.
  — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
• The disappearance of free electrons during this era of the universe, known as the epoch of recombination, allowed particles of light — photons — to freely travel the cosmos, thus making the universe transparent.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• Their results show that the purifying effects of recombination on genomes never cease to be important.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
• Kern argues that the differences in the rates of recombination across the genome reveal a phenomenon called genetic hitchhiking.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2018
• Physics reports that the slow recombination rates are considered a promising and exciting outcome.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2020
• The team also discovered that mutations, usually thought to happen at random, are linked to these recombination sites.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
• Pieces of the chromosome flipped around, which eventually blocked the Y from pairing with its mate, the X. That in turn prevented a form of genetic housecleaning known as recombination, which helps rid chromosomes of mistakes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2015
• According to the study, co-infection raises the possibility of recombination of the genomes of the different strains, which can generate new variants of the coronavirus.
  — Rodrigo Pedroso and Radina Gigova, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
• All of this recombination takes place between DNA molecules.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 June 2020
• But Elissa Levin, a genetic counselor and the director of policy and clinical affairs of Helix, says a process called recombination means that each egg and each sperm carries a different mix of a parent's genes.
  — Gisele Grayson, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
• Lack of originality is not a crime, though, and children’s literature is an art of recombination perhaps more than of invention.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018

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