What is unequal crossing over, and what are the products of the process?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: Unequal crossing over occurs when there are homologous sequences at different positions on different chromosomes. When these segments align and crossing over occurs between them, one recombinant product contains a duplication while the other suffers a deletion.

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