reassorting

Regrouping mixed elements

Reassorting is the present participle of reassort, meaning to sort again or rearrange into new groupings.

In virology, reassorting refers to the process by which segmented viruses exchange genetic material when two strains infect the same cell, producing new viral combinations: The flu virus was reassorting with avian strains.

This mechanism can generate novel pathogens with pandemic potential.

organization

rearranging

Altering the configuration

regroupingOrganizing anew after scattering
categorizingAssigning to groups
shufflingRandomizing order of items

redistributing · reordering · classifying · reorganizing · repositioning · reallocating · restructuring · recategorizing · reshelving · resequencing

virology

influenza

Acute viral respiratory infection

genomeOrganism's total hereditary material
segmentsSeparate parts of something
recombinationGenetic material exchange process

H5N1 · pandemic · RNA · strains · coinfection · swine flu · avian · mutation · host · zoonotic

Opposites

genetic change mechanism

reassortingpoint mutation

Single nucleotide change in DNA

conserving · preserving · stabilizing

organization/arrangement

reassortingorganizing

Systematically putting in order

systematizing

mechanism of genetic variation

reassortingmutating

Changing genetic code

point mutation · genetic drift

Family

sort, assorted, resort, assortment, sorted, sorting, resorted, resorts, consort

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