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Gene conversion

Gene conversion

(Science: molecular biology) a phenomenon in which alleles are segregated in a 3:1 not 2:2 ratio in meiosis. May be a result of dna polymerase switching templates and copying from the other homologous sequence or a result of mismatch repair (nucleotides being removed from one strand and replaced by repair synthesis using the other strand as template).


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