- Institution/s: Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Saarbrücken, Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 175
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Aida GONZÁLEZ ALBORS, Andrea COCCARO CASTILLO, Diana MOŢOC, Rosario HERRERO, Verónica ARNÁIZ UZQUIZA
- Creation / modification date: 31-01-2014
- Term: segregation
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: The separation of alleles during meiosis so that each gamete contains only one member of each pair of alleles
- Context: It is purely a matter of chance which of the two factors happens to be transmitted at any one time. This is sometimes referred to as Mendel’s 1st law, or the law of segregation.
- Expression: law of segregation, segregation analysis, segregation ratio
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: PASSARGE, Eberhard (2004). Taschenatlas der Genetik. 2., vollst. überarb. u. erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 421.
- Definition: Hennig, Wolfgang (2002). Genetik. 3., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, Springer Verlag, 812.
- Context: MURKEN, Jan, GRIMM, Tiemo, HOLINSKI-FEDER, Elke (Hrsg.) (2006). Humangenetik. 7., vollst. neubearb. u. erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 190.
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