- 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: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
- Definition: EMERY, A.E.H. Y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (334)
- Context: EMERY, A.E.H. Y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (3)
- Expression: EMERY, A.E.H. Y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition. (3/187)
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