Meaning Meiotic drive
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Meiotic drivePreferential selection during meiosis (germ cell production). In meiotic drive there is preferential production of certain gametes. This alters the segregation of genes from the Mendelian expectations. Meiotic drive is a mechanism for transmission distortion.
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Meiotic driveA process resulting in more than 50% of gametes possessing one of the alleles from a heterozygoous genotype; indicates some bias in distribution during meiosis. © Nature Education
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Meiotic drivePreferential movement of a chromosome during meiosis
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Meiotic driveThe term 'meiotic drive' refers to any process which causes some alleles to be over-represented in the gametes which are formed during meiosis. With normal Mendelian segregation at a genetic [..]
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Meiotic driveUsed broadly to denote a preponderance (> 50 percent) of one allele among the gametes produced by a heterozygote, which is more properly called segregation distortion; results in genic selection.
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