assort

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It is the chromosomes, not the individual genes, that assort independently.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

This data helps retailers better understand their customers, leading to improvements in how they assort and design stores.Participation.

From Forbes • Apr. 8, 2014

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