McClintock and Creighton's work in maize shows physical evidence of recombination.
McClintock and Creighton followed the "knob" on a specific chromosome in maize gametes and correlated this physical structure with specific phenotypes.
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How does DNA recombination work? It occurs frequently in many different cell types, and it has important implications for genomic integrity, evolution, and human disease.
