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

If genes are far apart and more likely to cross-over, then they are more likely to assort independently.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

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

From Forbes • Jul. 14, 2015

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

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2011

Since the ice does not assort the material which it carries, as water does, the clay, sand, gravel and bowlders will not, by the action of the ice, be separated from one another.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.