Term Name: | meiotic drive |
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Definition: | A biological process that results in the unequal transmission of alleles, haplotypes, or chromosomes from a parental genome to gametes. In the absence of meiotic drive, the two copies of each gene or chromosome in a diploid organism are transmitted to offspring with equal probability, whereas meiotic drive results in overrepresentation of the driving allele among the surviving products of meiosis. |
Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0110134] QuickGO AmiGO |