Talk:Genetic recombination
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[edit] benefits?
What are the benefits of genetic recombination? --Evan 00:21, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- See Muller's ratchet
[edit] imprecise?
It seems imprecise to define recombination as separating genes (this is rather the case with transpositions/translocations). Rather alleles are separated. Sboehringer
[edit] Merge: Recombination with crossover
Does this article, perhaps, need to be merged (or merged and re-split along better lines) with chromosomal crossover?--ES2 18:31, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- This article was distinct until it was butchered on 23 July 2004. That edit eliminated the general definition of genetic recombination and reduced it to being nothing more than chromosomal crossover--which was addressed in the original article. If I weren't too busy to follow up on this right now, I'd probably revert all the way back to 23 July. AdamRetchless 04:23, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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- I didn't think that expanding a stub was exactly butchering the article. Thankfully the article has gotten better since that expansion. --ES2 05:01, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
I also think these two articles can be merged - unless someone can make the case that crossover and recombination refer to fundamentally different processes. Dr d12 20:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Intra- vs inter-chromosomal recombination
I have a real problem with the use of intra- vs inter-chromosomal recombination here. Ben Carritt 17:48, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cre Recombinase
Cre is a type of Recombinase (read Cyclic Recombinase)which has been found in the Bacteriophage P1. Cre catalyses a reaction between two 'Lox P' (read Loci of X over P1) sites, which are 34 bp sequences, causing splicing of the gene which is flanked by these two Lox P sites, leaving behind just the Lox site. This system is called the Cre-Lox system and has been used in effectively studying Mutations, allelic variations and is currently being used by the Biotechnolgy industry in producing trasgenic species of mice and plants to derive useful biological products. Bold text
[edit] New alleles?
Does recombination create new alleles, or does it keep the current ones intact? 5th April 2006
[edit] Santino junction
"...in the first Santino junction..."
What is that? SamEV 10:42, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
