recombinations

Genetic material remixings

Recombinations are instances of combining things again or in new arrangements.

In genetics, recombination is the process by which genetic material is shuffled during reproduction, creating new combinations of genes: Recombinations between chromosomes increase genetic diversity.

The term applies broadly to any rearrangement of existing elements into new configurations.

genetics

alleles

Variant forms of genes

  • chromosomesGene-bearing nuclear structures
  • DNAHereditary code molecule
  • meiosisGamete-producing cell division

genotype · phenotype · heredity · mutation · gametes · homologous · loci · segregation · progeny · zygote

innovation

remixing

Altering existing recordings

hybridization · cross-pollination · iteration · bricolage · repurposing · reimagining · novelty · invention · brainstorming · ideation

cultural

fusion

Joining into unity

blending · cross-cultural · eclecticism · cosmopolitan · mosaic · melting-pot · integration · pluralism · multiculturalism · intermixing

molecular

DNA

Hereditary code molecule

shuffling · domains · modular · segments · fragments · cloning · vectors · cassettes · libraries · mutagenesis

Opposites
originality and source

recombinationsinnovations

New methods or devices

inventions · originals · originations · prototypes · archetypes

structural process

recombinationsseparations

Acts of dividing apart

divisions · decompositions · dissolutions · fragmentations · segregations

change versus stability

recombinationspreservations

Acts of keeping safe

conservations · retentions · fixations · stabilities · permanences

Family

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