PURGING. “Like parasexuality, meiosis also serves as a mechanism to purge deleterious mutations from the genome and also reveals recessive alleles in haploid progeny of a heterozygous diploid progenitor.”
http://cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/6/3/a016154.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022