RECOMBINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recombination mean? 

• RECOMBINATION (noun)
  The noun RECOMBINATION has 2 senses:

1. (physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles

2. (genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents

  Familiarity information: RECOMBINATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOMBINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(physics) a combining of charges or transfer of electrons in a gas that results in the neutralization of ions; important for ions arising from the passage of high-energy particles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("recombination" is a kind of...):

combine; combining (an occurrence that results in things being united)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Derivation:

recombine (to combine or put together again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(genetics) a combining of genes or characters different from what they were in the parents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("recombination" is a kind of...):

combine; combining (an occurrence that results in things being united)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Derivation:

recombine (cause genetic recombination)

recombine (undergo genetic recombination)

 Context examples 

In many organisms, maintenance of DNA integrity requires not only faithful DNA replication, but also DNA repair and recombination.

(DNA Maintenance, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in DNA repair and V(D)J recombination.

(NHEJ1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The enzyme participate in various of biological process including DNA replication, transcription and recombination.

(DNA Helicase, NCI Thesaurus)

Any type of genetic recombination involving rearrangement of segments of DNA within a single chromosome, such that a segment of the chromosome is reversed from the original orientation.

(Chromosomal Inversion Process, NCI Thesaurus)

A DNA Maintenance Process consists of activities of biologic molecules, complexes, or subcellular components that preserve DNA integrity through faithful DNA replication, DNA repair, or recombination.

(DNA Maintenance Process, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes double-strand break repair protein MRE11A, is involved in the modulation of DNA recombination, telomere maintenance and double-strand break repair.

(MRE11A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Any type of recombination occuring within somatic cells and involving possible exchange and frequent loss of segments of DNA by either homologous or nonhomologous recombination of broken DNA strands.

(Mitotic Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the mediation of DNA double-strand break repair, recombination and telomere maintenance.

(Double-Strand Break Repair Protein MRE11A, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in DNA recombination and repair.

(MRE11A Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

BRCA1 and BRCA2 induce double-stranded repair of breaks using homologous recombination, in part through activation of RAD51.

(Cancer Susceptibility Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)