NEET · Biology · STD 11 - 10. Cell cycle and cell division
The enzyme recombinase is required at which stage of meiosis?
- A Pachytene
- B Zygotene
- C Diplotene
- D Diakinesis
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(A) Pachytene
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(a) : Pachytene is characterized bythe appearance of recombination nodules, the sites at which crossing over occurs between non-sister chromatids of the homologous chromosomes. Nodules contain multienzyme complex called recombinase. Recombinase is made of endonuclease, exonuclease, unwindase, R-protein, etc.
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