assort

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Genes that are located far apart on the same chromosome are likely to assort independently.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

We could try to assort that bunch top-to-bottom, from the front of the train to the caboose.

From Forbes • Jul. 14, 2015

This occurs because chromosomes, on which the genes reside, assort independently during meiosis and crossovers cause most genes on the same chromosomes to also behave independently.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Many species, including primates and wolves, assort themselves by means of a dominance hierarchy.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2011

They are marketed in different ways, but the growers who make mushrooms a specialty assort and pack them in chip baskets, boxes, or otherwise, as the metropolitan and provincial markets demand or suggest.

From Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure by Falconer, William