Generalized transduction Transduction in which any gene can be transferred from one bacterial cell to another by a virus.Specialized transduction Transduction in which genes near special sites on the bacterial chromosome are transferred from one bacterium to another.

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An inversion moves a wild-type allele (red eyes) at the white locus in Drosophila to a chromosomal region that contains highly condensed, the wild-type allele is not expressed in some cells, resulting in an eye consisting of red and white spots.

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Inversion homozygous - No special problems arise in meiosis. Inversion heterozygous - Two chromosomes form an inversion loop

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Heterozygous for inversions also exhibit reduced recombination among genes located in the inverted region.

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In prophase I of meiosis, an inversion loop forms.

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In Paracentric inversion - a single crossover takes place in the inverted region an unusual structure results

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Dicentric bridge - Structure produced when the two centromeres of a dicentric chromatid are pulled toward opposite poles