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CROSSING-OVER

Specialty Definition: CROSSING-OVER

DomainDefinition

Medicine

The exchange of genetic material during cellular replication involving the breakage and reunion of DNA, thus giving rise to recombination. Source: European Union. (references)
 The exchange of corresponding segments between chromatids of homologous chromosomes during meiosia, forming a chiasma. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CROSSING-OVER

Specialty definitions using "CROSSING-OVER": crossing-over unitSynaptonemal Complex. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CROSSING-OVER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (crossing over, crossing-over, crossover).

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Modern Translation: CROSSING-OVER

Language Translations for "CROSSING-OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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

   

French

  

crossing-over (crossing over, crossover), crossing over (crossing over, crossover), entrecroisement (criss cross), 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,επισχιασμός, 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), scambio (exchange, interchange, points, switch, trade off, tradeoffs, truck), ricombinazione incrociata (crossing over, crossover). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ossing-overcray

   

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), sobrecruzamiento, recombinación cruzada (crossing over, crossover), intercambio de genes entre cromosomas homólogos durante la meiosis (crossing over, crossover), entrecruzamiento (crossing over, crossover). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CROSSING-OVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-v"

-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.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-v"
 

+2 letters: overprocessing.

 

+3 letters: overcompressing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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