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Gregor Johann Mendel
• 1822- 1884
• Austrian monk
• Experimented with pea
plants
• He thought that
‘heritable factors’ (genes)
retained their
individuality generation
after generation
Time Line
• 1831 Charles Darwin joins crew of Beagle
• 1839 Schleiden and Schwann propose the Cell Theory
• 1847 Semmelweiss proposes that infection is spread by contaminated hands of
physicians.
• 1856 Mendel begins hybridization studies with garden peas
• 1857 Louis Pasteur (France) introduces the Germ Theory of Disease.
• 1859 Darwin publishes Origin of Species
• 1865 Mendel presents presents his results in transmission of phenotypic traits
between the generations to the Brünn Society of Natural
Sciences.
• 1900 Hugo de Vries in Holland, William Bateson in Great Britain, Franz
Correns in Germany, and Erich Tschermak in Austria acknowledged Mendel's
legacy, and hailed him as the true father of classical genetics.
Terms to Know and Use
• Gene – A DNA blueprint controlling
synthesis of a protein
• Trait - variant for a gene: i.e. a purple
flower, determined by alleles
• Dominant trait - expressed over recessive
trait when both are present
• Recessive trait - not expressed when the
dominant trait is present
• Co-Dominant – expressed as blended traits
• Allele - a variation of a gene responsible for
different traits, often represented as A or a
• Locus - location of a gene,or allele, on a
chromosome
• Chromosome - strand of DNA containing
the genes
• Haploid - one copy of a chromosome
• Diploid - two copies of a chromosome
• Gamete - a spermatozoa or oocyte (egg)
cell, they are haploid
• Zygote - cell resulting from the fusion of
two gametes, they are diploid
• Genotype - the type of alleles on a
chromosome: genetic makeup
• Phenotype - The way a genotype is
expressed: i.e. the color of a flower
• True breeding line - organisms that always
pass the same genotype to their offspring
• Hybrid - offspring resulting from
crossbreeding two true breeding lines: F1
Garden Pea Experiments
1856-64
• Mendel disagreed with
the “Blending Theory”
of inheritance.
• Started with 34 kinds
peas Pisium sativum
• After 2 years he had
22 purebreds
http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/1/concept/index.html
Pea Characteristics
Trait on the left is dominant. Trait on the right is recessive.
Flower Parts
Mendel’s Hypotheses
• There are alternate forms
of ‘genes’=alleles
• For each trait, organisms
have 2 genes, one from
mom & one from dad
• Pollen and egg each carry
1 allele/trait because
alleles segregate
• When only one allele is
expressed & other has no
noticeable effect, it is
dominant
• http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/
nonmajorsbiology/independentassortment.html
Mendel’s Experiments
1. Plants must possess constant
differentiating characteristics.
2. The hybrids of such plants
must, during the flowering
period, be protected from the
influence of all foreign pollen,
or be easily capable of such
protection.
3. The hybrids and their offspring
should suffer no marked
disturbance in their fertility in
the successive generations.
Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
• Law of Segregation during gamete
formation allele pairs separate or segregate,
into different gametes (Demonstrated with a
“test cross”).
• Law of Independent Assortment
suggested that each allele pair segregates
independently of other gene pairs during
gamete formation (Demonstrated with a dihybrid cross).
• http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/majorsbiology/independentassortment.html
A A
A
A
AA
AA
AA
AA
Fathercontributes: Mother contributes:
or
or
True Breeding
a a
A
A
Aa
Aa
Aa
Aa
Fathercontributes: Mother contributes:
or
or
Cross Breeding
Monohybrid Cross
Test Cross
Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
• Law of Segregation during gamete
formation allele pairs separate or segregate,
into different gametes (Demonstrated with a
“test cross”).
• http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/nonmajorsbiology/independentassortment.html
• Law of Independent Assortment
suggested that each allele pair segregates
independently of other gene pairs during
gamete formation (Demonstrated with a dihybrid cross).
• http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/majorsbiology/independentassortment.html
Dihybrid Cross
Two chromosomes of one parent are represented on the left.
Possible alleles passed on to the offspring are on the right.
(Consider smooth or wrinkled peas AND tall or short plants)
Smooth
Tall
Smooth Smooth wrinkled wrinkled
Tall short Tall short
SB
Sb
sB
SB
sb
sb
Fathercontributes: Mother contributes:
Dihybrid Cross
Sb sB
SSBB SSBb SsBB SsBb
SSbB SSbb SsbB Ssbb
sSBB sSBb ssBB ssBb
sSbB sSbb ssbB ssbb
Chromosomes = DNA
Meiosis I
One diploid sex cell divides……
Meiosis II
Result: One diploid cell = four haploid cells
Crossing Over in Meiosis I
DO ALL GENES ASSORT
INDEPENDENTLY?
• Genes on the same chromosome tend to be
inherited together = linked
• Sex-linked genes: color blindness, MD,
hemophilia. X Y
• X
X
Credits
• Mendel Image: pw1.netcom.com/~aguldo/ agga/bt/txt/bt1899.htm
• Pea trellis: http://www.floridata.com/ref/p/images/pisu_sa1.jpg
• Experiments in Plant Hybridization (1865)
by Gregor Mendel Read at the meetings of February 8th, and March 8th, 1865
to the the Natural History Society of Brünn (paper can be read at:
http://www.mendelweb.org/home.html
• MendelWeb, edited by Roger B. Blumberg.
(http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/, Edition 97.1 1997)
• The Biology Project: http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html
• Meiosis Images: www.micro.utexas.edu/.../bio304/ genetics/meiosis.4.gif
• Crossing Over image:
http://medlib.med.utah.edu/block2/biochem/Formosa/Figures/Lecture5/5-15%20Meiosis.JP
• Monohybrid, dihybrid, test cross & pea flower: ntri.tamuk.edu/homepage-
ntri/lectures/ biology/test-cross.gi

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Mendelian genetics 2007.ppt

  • 1.
  • 2. Gregor Johann Mendel • 1822- 1884 • Austrian monk • Experimented with pea plants • He thought that ‘heritable factors’ (genes) retained their individuality generation after generation
  • 3. Time Line • 1831 Charles Darwin joins crew of Beagle • 1839 Schleiden and Schwann propose the Cell Theory • 1847 Semmelweiss proposes that infection is spread by contaminated hands of physicians. • 1856 Mendel begins hybridization studies with garden peas • 1857 Louis Pasteur (France) introduces the Germ Theory of Disease. • 1859 Darwin publishes Origin of Species • 1865 Mendel presents presents his results in transmission of phenotypic traits between the generations to the Brünn Society of Natural Sciences. • 1900 Hugo de Vries in Holland, William Bateson in Great Britain, Franz Correns in Germany, and Erich Tschermak in Austria acknowledged Mendel's legacy, and hailed him as the true father of classical genetics.
  • 4. Terms to Know and Use • Gene – A DNA blueprint controlling synthesis of a protein • Trait - variant for a gene: i.e. a purple flower, determined by alleles • Dominant trait - expressed over recessive trait when both are present • Recessive trait - not expressed when the dominant trait is present • Co-Dominant – expressed as blended traits
  • 5. • Allele - a variation of a gene responsible for different traits, often represented as A or a • Locus - location of a gene,or allele, on a chromosome • Chromosome - strand of DNA containing the genes • Haploid - one copy of a chromosome • Diploid - two copies of a chromosome • Gamete - a spermatozoa or oocyte (egg) cell, they are haploid
  • 6. • Zygote - cell resulting from the fusion of two gametes, they are diploid • Genotype - the type of alleles on a chromosome: genetic makeup • Phenotype - The way a genotype is expressed: i.e. the color of a flower • True breeding line - organisms that always pass the same genotype to their offspring • Hybrid - offspring resulting from crossbreeding two true breeding lines: F1
  • 7. Garden Pea Experiments 1856-64 • Mendel disagreed with the “Blending Theory” of inheritance. • Started with 34 kinds peas Pisium sativum • After 2 years he had 22 purebreds http://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/1/concept/index.html
  • 8. Pea Characteristics Trait on the left is dominant. Trait on the right is recessive.
  • 10. Mendel’s Hypotheses • There are alternate forms of ‘genes’=alleles • For each trait, organisms have 2 genes, one from mom & one from dad • Pollen and egg each carry 1 allele/trait because alleles segregate • When only one allele is expressed & other has no noticeable effect, it is dominant • http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/ nonmajorsbiology/independentassortment.html
  • 11. Mendel’s Experiments 1. Plants must possess constant differentiating characteristics. 2. The hybrids of such plants must, during the flowering period, be protected from the influence of all foreign pollen, or be easily capable of such protection. 3. The hybrids and their offspring should suffer no marked disturbance in their fertility in the successive generations.
  • 12. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance • Law of Segregation during gamete formation allele pairs separate or segregate, into different gametes (Demonstrated with a “test cross”). • Law of Independent Assortment suggested that each allele pair segregates independently of other gene pairs during gamete formation (Demonstrated with a dihybrid cross). • http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/majorsbiology/independentassortment.html
  • 13. A A A A AA AA AA AA Fathercontributes: Mother contributes: or or True Breeding
  • 14. a a A A Aa Aa Aa Aa Fathercontributes: Mother contributes: or or Cross Breeding
  • 16.
  • 18. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance • Law of Segregation during gamete formation allele pairs separate or segregate, into different gametes (Demonstrated with a “test cross”). • http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/nonmajorsbiology/independentassortment.html • Law of Independent Assortment suggested that each allele pair segregates independently of other gene pairs during gamete formation (Demonstrated with a dihybrid cross). • http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/anisamples/majorsbiology/independentassortment.html
  • 20. Two chromosomes of one parent are represented on the left. Possible alleles passed on to the offspring are on the right. (Consider smooth or wrinkled peas AND tall or short plants) Smooth Tall Smooth Smooth wrinkled wrinkled Tall short Tall short
  • 21. SB Sb sB SB sb sb Fathercontributes: Mother contributes: Dihybrid Cross Sb sB SSBB SSBb SsBB SsBb SSbB SSbb SsbB Ssbb sSBB sSBb ssBB ssBb sSbB sSbb ssbB ssbb
  • 23. Meiosis I One diploid sex cell divides……
  • 24. Meiosis II Result: One diploid cell = four haploid cells
  • 25. Crossing Over in Meiosis I
  • 26. DO ALL GENES ASSORT INDEPENDENTLY? • Genes on the same chromosome tend to be inherited together = linked • Sex-linked genes: color blindness, MD, hemophilia. X Y • X X
  • 27. Credits • Mendel Image: pw1.netcom.com/~aguldo/ agga/bt/txt/bt1899.htm • Pea trellis: http://www.floridata.com/ref/p/images/pisu_sa1.jpg • Experiments in Plant Hybridization (1865) by Gregor Mendel Read at the meetings of February 8th, and March 8th, 1865 to the the Natural History Society of Brünn (paper can be read at: http://www.mendelweb.org/home.html • MendelWeb, edited by Roger B. Blumberg. (http://www.netspace.org/MendelWeb/, Edition 97.1 1997) • The Biology Project: http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html • Meiosis Images: www.micro.utexas.edu/.../bio304/ genetics/meiosis.4.gif • Crossing Over image: http://medlib.med.utah.edu/block2/biochem/Formosa/Figures/Lecture5/5-15%20Meiosis.JP • Monohybrid, dihybrid, test cross & pea flower: ntri.tamuk.edu/homepage- ntri/lectures/ biology/test-cross.gi

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  1. Born 1822 to a peasant family in Moravia, part of Austrian Empire-now the Czech republic. Peasants actually held land and farmed it-3 days/week they worked for landlord. Born to Anton & Rosine. Anton grew fruit trees, experimented with grafts probably his introduction to horticulture. Father sacrificed to keep son in school –academic career. After training Mendel considered himself a physicist. The monastery of St. Thomas at Brunn in Moravia was one of the leading centers of intellectual activity in Moravia. The abbot(head) of the monastery encouraged all the members to pursue scientific interests. They were required to teach bible studies, mathematics and and Philosophy at the Philosophy Institute in Brünn. So basically the Abbott, Cyrill Napp, created this small private university. In 1943 Mendel was ask to join the monastery. Alongside his religious duties as a novice, Mendel worked under Matthaeus Klacel, a botantist carrying out plant breeding experiments at the monastery. Mendel studies for 4 years in theology completing his course in1848 and he was then assigned as a parish priest/chaplain at a nearby hospital. But working with all these sick people made him physically ill. So the Abbott moved him out to teach math and the classics at a local high school. He tried to get his teaching certificate, but failed because he had a poor grasp of biology in1850. Because he was a well liked and great instructor they kept him on and sent him for future studies at Vienna University where he studied physics, statistics and probability, atomic theory of chemistry and took bio and plant physiology courses. . At this time universities were just beginning to teach that plants were made up of cells and that plants reproduced sexually—meaning that contributions form both parents were important in the development of a new plant from seed. Mendel returned to the monastery and continued teaching high school and prevailing thought is that he never passed the teachers exam because he disagreed the the examiners ideas about plant reproduction or he had debilitating test anxiety. The prevailing idea was that most of the information for the new seed comes from the pollen grain. Based upon their observations with ornamental plant breeding, scientists in the nineteenth century realized that both parents contribute to the characteristics of offspring. The "blending" theory then became the favored explanation of inheritance. According to this theory: Hereditary materials from male and female parents mix to form the offspring, and once blended, the hereditary material is inseparable. Since the hereditary material is inseparable, the population should reach a uniform appearance after many generations. Reuslting offspring is a dilution of parents traits. This theory was inconsistent with the observations that: Populations do not reach a uniform appearance. Some traits are absent in one generation and present in the next. An Augustinian friar, Gregor Johann Mendel lived and worked from 1843 in Brno, in the Abbey of St Thomas, of which he became the abbot in 1867. At the beginning of the 19th century, Brno, capital of the province of Moravia - then a region of the Austrian-Hungarian empire - was a culturally active, multi-lingual city. Mendel, who took part in the social and cultural life of the town, gained titles such as that first of Vice-President, and then President of the local Mortgage Bank, the Hypotheque Bank. He was especially known for his activity as a teacher, for his interest in meteorology and in the breeding of bees. University of Vienna (1851-53), where, as his certificate of study testifies, he attended courses on plant physiology given by Franz Unger (1800-1870) and on experimental physics by Christian Doppler (1803-1853) [i], both crucial figures in Mendel's scientific development.
  2. Mendel had been doing some mice breeding experiments in his room, but he never shared his results because probably because he realized his work with mammals would might be seen by his superiors in the Church as unsuitably close to home—humans which had been created in God’s image In 1956 Mendel began his experiments part-time with garden peas in the genus Pisum. Using thirty-four different kinds of peas of the genus Pisum which had been tested for their genetic purity, he tried to determine whether it was possible to obtain new variants by crossbreeding. Peas were carefully chosen as pollination could be easily controlled and normally pea plants are self-fertilizing. He was only givens small strip in the monastery garden (35m long x 7m wide) and a greenhouse. He was still a full time teacher and had religious duties . Past students described him as a great teacher, very enthusiastic. If he had a student that did really poorly on an exam, he would rewrite the exam easier. He felt it was more important to encourage students enthusiasm for science than to stuff their heads with rote memorization of facts. His research involved careful planning, necessitated the use of thousands of experimental plants, and, by his own account, extended over eight years. In 1863 he went to Londonand read a German translation of Darwin’s Origin of species. Unfortuately they never met.
  3. Cell theory had only recently been formulated by a number of scientists, from the Czech J.E. Purkinje (1787-1869) (also famed for his study on the conductive tissue of the heart)- who, in 1837, observed a parallel between the structure of plant and animal tissue - through the German botanist Matthias Schleiden (1804-1881)[i], who proposed that all plant tissue is composed of nucleated cells, to another German scientist, Theodor Schwann (1810-1882), who suggested "cellular formation" for both plant and animal tissue. Contrary to Schleiden, Unger showed that plants cells originate by division rather than by spontaneous formation. This would have been a crucial insight for Mendel. Furthermore, Schleiden's and Unger's emphasis on the need for "sharp" experiments, the application of mathematical laws to biology and botany, as well as their innovative definition of cells, profoundly influenced Mendel's thinking and method.   Mendel was indebted to Unger's work on the role and behaviour of cells in pollination, and his observation of the production of new varieties through cross fertilisation, in particular the notion that this involved the union of just two cells. Through his experiments with pea plants, Mendel further explored the question of how the union of two cells produce a new organism, the enigma of generation. He concentrated on what, until then, had remained overlooked: the importance of considering pairs of observable characters and the statistical laws governing the pattern of their re-appearance in the off-springs. Naturally occurring hybrids were known to display characters belonging to both parents, as observed with respect to height and leaf distribution in the specimens of Primula from the 18th century Bobart's Herbarium. Applying the knowledge that he had gained through his study of experimental physics and mathematical sciences, Mendel developed special techniques of artificial pollination in order to control the crossing of species. Using these techniques he discovered that new patterns of combinations of characters would emerge in the hybrids if large enough numbers of plants were observed across several generations.
  4. Absolutely crucial to Mendel's experiments was that the characters he selected bred true (the plants were true-breeders), and he spent two seasons verifying this. Carefully controlling his experiments he reflected that some of the characters did not permit "sharp and certain separations since the differences of the ‘more or less' nature'" are often difficult to define. He therefore selected seven characters which "stand out clearly and definitely in the plants". These were:   form of the ripe seeds - (round or roundish, or angular and wrinkled)   colour of the seed - (pale yellow, bright yellow and orange-coloured, or green)   colour of the seed coat - (either white or grey, grey brown, leather brown, with or without violet spotting)   form of the ripe pods - (simply inflated or deeply constricted and more or less wrinkled)   colour of the unripe pod - (light to dark green or vividly yellow)   position of the flowers - (axial, i.e. distributed along the main stem, or terminal, this is bunched at the top of the stem)   length of the stem - (the long axis of six to seven feet, or a short one of 3/4 to 1 feet)   The crucial importance of Mendel's experimentation with peas lies in these fundamental facts: characters or traits from parents pass as unmodified "units", individual "Mendelian" factors (which we now call "genes") to successive generations according to set ratios. Individuals possess two sets of factors: one of each received from either parent. It makes no difference if any one character is inherited from male or female: they both contribute in the same way. Furthermore these factors are sometimes expressed and sometimes concealed but never lost. Generally (but not always) each "unit" is passed on independently from all other "units". For example, a pea may develop seeds that are either round and yellow, or wrinkled and yellow, or round and green, or wrinkled and green. The expression of these characteristics within generations of plants was observed to be variable. Certain characters were manifested much more frequently than others (even when they had been present in equal numbers in previous generations). It appears that certain characters were not immediately expressed (recessive or hidden) in preference to others (dominant). When two plants were crossed, the ratio of characters in the resulting generations could be expected to have been 1:1. However, what Mendel observed and was able to repeat, was that one character (dominant) appeared three times as frequently as another (recessive). The average ratio observed through carefully controlled experiments was 3:1.
  5. One pair of characters that he studied was round versus wrinkled seeds. When pollen formed, a variety of plants with wrinkled seeds were used to cross pollinate plants for a variety with round seeds, all of the resulting hybrid seeds were round. Geneticists call the hybrid seeds or the plants the F1 generation to distinguish them from the pure-breeding parents, the P1 generation. Mendel also performed the reciprocal cross, in which plants from the variety with round seeds were used as the pollen parents and those from the variety with wrinkled seeds as the female parents. As before, all of the F1 seeds were round. Similar results were obtained when Mendel made crosses between plants that differed in any of the pairs of alternative characteristics. In each case, all of the F1 progeny exhibited only one of the parental traits, and the other trait was absent. The trait expressed in the hybrids, Mendel called the dominant trait. The trait not expressed in the hybrids he called recessive.     The recessive trait reappears in the next generation when the hybrid progeny are allowed to undergo self-fertilization. Mendel counted 5474 seeds that were round and 1850 that were wrinkled. He noted that this ratio was approximately 3:1. The progeny seeds produced by self-fertilization of the F1 generation constitute the F2 generation.
  6. Each somatic cell of a normal individual contains two copies of each of the 22 autosomal chromosomes, one of paternal origin and one of maternal origin, and either an X from the mother and an X from the father if the individual is female or an X from the mother and a Y from the father if the individual is male. This is called the diploid (2 copy) state. During gametogenesis, the formation of the gametes (ova in females and sperm in males), this diploid state is reduced to the haploid (1 copy) state through the process of cell division called meiosis. Meiosis consists of two consecutive cytoplasmic divisions with only one DNA replication. In some texts meiosis will be explained as two divisions, a reduction division followed by a mitotic division but this is a misnomer. Meiosis is one continuous process from beginning to end. Mendel assumed that the traits he was studying were determined by what he called unit characters. We call these unit characters alleles. Alleles are the alternative forms of a gene, often called the locus or specific site on the chromosome where the gene resides. Mendel's law of segregation states that during gametogenesis these alternative forms, alleles, segregate into different gametes and are never found in the same gamete. The chromosomal movements in meiosis assure this. The above sketch reviews the chromosomal movements of first meiotic division. [A], represents two homologous chromosomes in a cell that is going to enter meiosis, one chromosome was inherited from the mother and one inherited from the father. Each chromosome contains a single double stranded DNA molecule. Each has a different allele at a particular locus. [B], the chromosomes have duplicated, forming two chromatids (two double-stranded DNA molecules) and paired at the metaphase plate in the first division of meiosis. [C], the homologous chromosomes have separated at the first division. Notice that the alleles are destined to go into separate gametes. The effects of recombination are not shown. Mendel's law of independent assortment states that unit characters for different traits, traits controlled by genes of different chromosomes assort independently. That is, if a gene on chromosome 1 has two alleles, a and b, and a gene on chromosome 2 has two alleles, c and d, the combinations a and c, a and d, b and c, and b and d, are all equally likely. There is no preference for a to be with either c or d. Since chromosmes 1 and 2 line up on the metaphase plate independently at the first meiotic division, with equal chance of the maternal or paternal homolog going to one pole for each chromosome, these combinations have an equal chance of occurring. Thus, alleles of genes that lie on different chromosomes assort independently of one another. These two laws, the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment, are the basis of Mendelian inheritance.
  7. Meiosis Two consecutive divisions of a particular cell type, which results in four daughter cells that have half of the chromosome number of their mother cell. The daughter cells are thus genetically different from the mother cell, and due to independent, random assortment of chromosomes and crossing over, they are genetically differentfrom one another as well. The first division is called the reduction division, since this is the one during which chromosome number in the cells is reduced. Only certain types of cells divide by meiosis that occur in the archegonium/antheridium in plants, and in the gonads in animals. Cells with an odd number of chromosome sets normally can not carry out meiosis, as chromosome pairing is messed up (see sympatric speciation by polyploidy in the section Macroevolution).
  8. The above sketch reviews the chromosomal movements of first meiotic division. [A], represents two homologous chromosomes in a cell that is going to enter meiosis, one chromosome was inherited from the mother and one inherited from the father. Each chromosome contains a single double stranded DNA molecule. Each has a different allele at a particular locus. [B], the chromosomes have duplicated, forming two chromatids (two double-stranded DNA molecules) and paired at the metaphase plate in the first division of meiosis. [C], the homologous chromosomes have separated at the first division. Notice that the alleles are destined to go into separate gametes. The effects of recombination are not shown. Mendel's law of independent assortment states that unit characters for different traits, traits controlled by genes of different chromosomes assort independently. That is, if a gene on chromosome 1 has two alleles, a and b, and a gene on chromosome 2 has two alleles, c and d, the combinations a and c, a and d, b and c, and b and d, are all equally likely. There is no preference for a to be with either c or d. Since chromosomes 1 and 2 line up on the metaphase plate independently at the first meiotic division, with equal chance of the maternal or paternal homolog going to one pole for each chromosome, these combinations have an equal chance of occurring. Thus, alleles of genes that lie on different chromosomes assort independently of one another. These two laws, the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment, are the basis of Mendelian inheritance. Illustration of crossing-over and recombination during the formation of gametes (germ cells) or meiosis. Crossing-over is part of a complicated process which can occur during cell division. In meiosis, the precursor cells of the sperm or ova must multiply and at the same time reduce the number of chromosomes to one full set. During the early stages of cell division in meiosis, two chromosomes of a homologous pair may exchange segments in the manner shown above, producing genetic variations in germ cells.