recombiˈnational, a. Genetics.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to recombination.
| 1959 Nature 14 Nov. 1593/1 (heading) Recombinational lethals in a polymorphic population. Ibid. 1594/1 A recessive lethal can be produced by recombinational instead of mutational change. 1969 Genetics LXI. 298 The problem of recipient culture variability during recombinational analyses. 1977 Jrnl. Protozool. XXIV. 27/2 The duplex forms could have arisen as a consequence of a prior mutational or recombinational event. |
Hence recombiˈnationally adv., by or as a result of recombination.
| 1969 W. D. Stansfield Theory & Probl. Genetics ix. 184 Recombinationally separable forms of a gene within a cistron are referred to as heteroalleles. |