Crossing Over

Definition: Crossing Over

Crossing Over

Noun

1. The interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.

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Medicine

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Synonym: Crossing Over

Crosswords: Crossing Over

Crossing Over (1989)

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Books

• Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms (reference)

• Crossing Over Where Art and Science Meet (reference)

• The Mystical Way in the Fourth Gospel: Crossing over into God (reference)

• The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing over (reference)

  (more book examples)

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"Echometre" record from S. S. De Grasse Crossing over canyon near Georges Bank Bulletin 4 of the Association of Field Engineers, Dec. 1931, p. 83. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Low water crossing over the Little Missouri River. Credit: Merv Coleman.

Effects of shells upon the enemies rifle pits at the crossing over the Rappahannock--June 5th. Credit: Library of Congress.

Last house in the United States before crossing over into Canada. In American border ghost town. Pointhill, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Condition of crossing over ditch. Mules' shack in background on temporary farmstead. Transylvania Project, Louisiana. Until recently this was occupied by Negro sharecropper. Credit: Library of Congress.

Swinging bridge crossing over creek from main road to post office and store. Ary, Kentucky. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Expressions using "crossing over": Crossing Over (Genetics) ♦ locus of crossing over ♦ unequal crossing over. Additional references.

Danish

crossing-over (crossing-over, crossover), overkrydsning (criss-crossbridge, crossing-over, crossover), genetisk overkrydsning (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

Dutch

crossing over (crossing-over, crossover), overkruising (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

Finnish

crossing over (crossing-over, crossover), tekijäinvaihto (crossing-over, crossover), geenienvaihdunta (crossing-over, crossover), geenien vaihdunta (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

French

crossing-over (crossing-over, crossover), crossing over (crossing-over, crossover), enjambement (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

German

Crossing-over (crossing-over, crossover), Crossing over (crossing-over, crossover), Segmentenaustausch (crossing-over, crossover), Faktorenaustausch (crossing-over, crossover), Überkreuzung (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

Greek 

crossing-over (crossing-over, crossover), χιασματυπία (crossing-over, crossover), επισχιασμός (crossing-over, crossover), επιχιασμός (crossing-over, crossover), διασκελιστικότης (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

Italian

crossing-over (crossing-over, crossover), crossing over (crossing-over, crossover), chiasmatipia (crossing-over, crossover), scambio intercromosomico (crossing-over, crossover), scambio di geni (crossing-over, crossover), ricombinazione incrociata (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

Pig Latin

ossingcray overay

Portuguese

crossing-over (crossing-over, crossover), recombinação cruzada (crossing-over, crossover), entrecruzamento (lathing, network), "crossing-over" (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

Spanish

crossing-over (crossing-over, crossover), translocación recíproca normal (crossing-over, crossover), solsrecuzamiento (crossing-over, crossover), recombinación cruzada (crossing-over, crossover), intercambio de genes entre cromosomas homólogos durante la meiosis (crossing-over, crossover), entrecruzamiento (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

Swedish

överkorsning (crossing-over, crossover). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: corrosives, recrossing.

-3 letters: corrosive, cosigners, coverings, crossover, governors, rescoring, resorcins.

-4 letters: cognises, congress, conioses, coreigns, coroners, cosigner, covering, cringers, crooners, crosiers, crossing, erosions, goriness, governor, groovers, groovier, ignorers, isogones, necrosis, orogenic, resorcin, revisors, scorners, scrooges, servings, versions.

-5 letters: censors, cessing, cession, cirrose, cognise, coignes, coiners, congers, congoes, coreign, corners, cornier, coroner, corries, corvine, cosigns.

+2 letters: overprocessing.

+3 letters: overcompressing.