Tag Archives | Mitotic Crossing Over

The below mentioned article provides a short note on mitotic crossing over. Crossing over not only occurs during meiosis but also during mitosis. In individuals heterozygous for a gene producing a visible phenotype, somatic crossing over leads to the production of "twin spots" of dominant and recessive phenotypes. Mitotic crossing over was first discovered in Drosophila by Stern in 1936, [...]