Important Features of Pachytene stage ?
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Pachytene stage is a part of Prophase I of Meiosis I.
Features of Pachytene Stage in Cell Divison are as follows :
- It is the longest stage of Prophase I
- Bivalents are more clearly visible
- Recombination starts between non-sister chromatids of homologous chromosomes
- Crossing over is mediated in this phase by recombinase enzyme
- Recombination nodules appear at crossing over sites
- Recombination is complete is this phase
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