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Crossing over   /krˈɔsɪŋ ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Crossing over

noun
1.
The interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis.  Synonym: crossover.






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"Crossing over" Quotes from Famous Books



... with which she had been shovelling out brown sugar, and, crossing over to where Miles was standing, gave him a hearty ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant

... paused in his walk, and dropped again into his chair. Here he sat for a long while. Then, of a sudden, he lifted his head and glanced swiftly about his bare room. Finally he sprang to his feet and crushed his slouch hat on his head, and, crossing over to the oil-lamp on the table, blew it out. Then he passed out into the night, slamming and ...
— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum

... could furnish protection, began. In the midst of these were the troops embarked in their new and straitened transports, and each division, after an exposure of ten hours, landed upon a small desert spot of earth, called Pine Island, where it was determined to collect the whole army, previous to its crossing over to the main. ...
— The History of the First West India Regiment • A. B. Ellis

... Palmet, 'we might be crossing over to the Club if I hadn't to go about that stupid business to Holdesbury to-morrow morning. We shall miss the race, or, at ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... with her view first, and crossing over, she seated herself in the deep embrasure of a window close beside Tony's parapet. He rose again at her approach, but there was no eagerness in the motion; it was merely the necessary deference of a ...
— Jerry • Jean Webster


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