Term Information

Accession
GO:0032837
Name
distributive segregation
Ontology
biological_process
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Definition
The cell cycle process in which genetic material, in the form of chromosomes, is organized and then physically separated and apportioned to two or more sets during a normally chiasmate meiosis under the condition that chiasma have not occurred between a particular pair of homologs. Distributive segregation is a backup mechanism to ensure the segregation of homologs that have failed to cross over - either as a consequence of mutation or not, as, for example, the 4th chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster (which never exchanges, presumably due to its small size) - but nevertheless segregate normally. Source: GOC:sart, GOC:expert_rsh, GOC:ma
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History
See term history for GO:0032837 at QuickGO
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Parents of distributive segregation (GO:0032837)
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distributive segregation [is_a relation] is_a  meiotic chromosome segregation (GO:0045132)

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