How to Use recombination in a Sentence

recombination

noun
  • Costco, though, was a shrewd recombination of what had come before rather than a straight copy.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The list of combinations and recombinations of these traits goes on and on.
    — Outside Online, 31 July 2024
  • The recombination process is the origin of what’s known as omicron XE.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2022
  • This data gives clues to the recombination rate as well, DeLucia said.
    — Emily Bamforth, cleveland, 8 May 2020
  • When the body creates sperm or eggs, the cells engage in some reshuffling known as genetic recombination.
    — National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018
  • This recombination eats up the population of electrons and holes, pulling holes away from the p-side and electrons away from the n-side.
    — Sid Assawaworrarit, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023
  • That means the common method of viruses picking up new skills, called recombination, cannot operate here.
    — Steven Quay and Richard Muller, WSJ, 6 June 2021
  • Viral recombination happens when two different parent strains of the virus enter the same cell.
    — Erin Schumaker, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • These new genes were likely acquired through a process called DNA recombination.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • The colonists often threw each other over for neighbors in various spouse-swapping recombinations.
    — Paula McLain, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2015
  • Generally, recombination can happen when two variants infect one person at the same time and invade the same cells.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The number of chromosomes, whether the organism is diploid, the variations in the rate of recombination.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Aug. 2011
  • With each generation the pairs of chromosomes—one from each parent—are snipped and pasted with one another; a process known as recombination.
    — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
  • Their results show that the purifying effects of recombination on genomes never cease to be important.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The recombination, coming a decade after the companies split up, was a controversial one.
    — Christopher Palmeri, Bloomberg.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Physics reports that the slow recombination rates are considered a promising and exciting outcome.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The recombination of genes that happens when our parents’ chromosomes pair up and the random mutations that inevitably result.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
  • Normally, this recombination causes peaks in one half-beam’s waves to overlie troughs in the other’s, and vice versa, resulting in darkness.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The team also discovered that mutations, usually thought to happen at random, are linked to these recombination sites.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
  • This mishmash of subvariants is not unexpected, Rutherford said, and viruses go through such recombination all the time.
    — al, 8 Apr. 2022
  • When Ideas Become Free Progress has always been recombination.
    — Christian Catalini, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • This milestone, in which the ionized soup became neutral atoms, is known as recombination (a misnomer, since nuclei and electrons had never combined before).
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The longer from the time of admixture the smaller and smaller the blocks will become, as recombination slices apart long blocks and recombines ancestral components.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2013
  • Lack of originality is not a crime, though, and children’s literature is an art of recombination perhaps more than of invention.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Kern argues that the differences in the rates of recombination across the genome reveal a phenomenon called genetic hitchhiking.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The refraction and recombination of light is dependent on the crystal structure of the mineral and the orientation of the minerals.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Risk of recombination Questions have swirled about whether or not bird flu and seasonal influenza could form a recombinant virus, meaning a combination of the two.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 23 Nov. 2024
  • New offerings, services, and IP emerge not from the ether, but from the articulation and recombination of existing knowledge.
    — Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In this region, the free, mobile charges are lost because of diffusion and recombination with their opposite charges, and an electric field is established that can be exploited to control the flow of charges across the boundary.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2024
  • In the case of the X and Y chromosomes in mammals, suppression of recombination has been hypothesized to cause progressive loss of gene function and even the loss of entire genes.
    — Donna L. Maney, Scientific American, 18 Feb. 2025

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