Hi, RAZD.
RAZD writes:
Wouldn't this also be a way for recessive genes to be replicated? Damaged dominant repaired from undamaged recessive - some intermediate merging?
Or am I confusing things.
I think the mismatches Wounded King is talking about are mismatches on a single chromosome (which is made up of two complementary strands forming a double-helix). When the two chains of the double-helix don't complement each other, they don't anneal or coil properly, and a repair mechanism is initiated.
Since dominance/recessiveness describes the relationship between an allele and its counterpart on the homologous chromosome, this process should be independent of dominance/recessiveness.
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