Monday, April 2, 2012

70 Crossing Over

no, not the spiritual kind, but the kind that allows for more variation during meiosis.

We have two main methods of "mixing" up our DNA - the random assortment of the 23 pairs of chromosomes during Anaphase I, and

the crossing over during Metaphase I when tetrads are formed...

There's a handout with some nice pictures of crossing over for this page to supplement your notes on the topic.

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