When a genome contains a cluster of genes with related sequences, mispairing between nonallelic loci can cause unequal crossing over. This produces a deletion in one recombinant chromosome and a corresponding duplication in the other.

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

There are five phytochrome isoforms in angiosperms

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

ssb mutants have a quick stop phenotype, and are defective in repair and recombination as well as in replication. 

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Sodium bromide and sodium iodide are employed for the fractionation of lipoproteins
and the banding of DNA or RNA molecules, respectively.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

The zona pellucida in mammals plays a role analogous to that of the vitelline envelope in invertebrates; the zona, however, is a far thicker and denser structure than the vitelline envelope

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Instead, a dedicated protein (a special elongation factor) named SELB in complex with GTP is required to deliver Sec–tRNASec to the ribosome.