Crossing over factors : Part 5.
This is the breaking and regrowth, but wrongly joining together of chromosome pieces!
We should have great admiration for nature, but sometimes things go wrong there. This also applies to the separation of homologous chromosome pairs in sperm and egg cells just before fertilization, where the number of chromosomes must first be reduced to half in order to ultimately return to the original correct number of chromosomes after fertilization in the germ cell or first body cell.
fig 1 Deel 5 crossing

Figure 2 Figure 3

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