noun
- Organisms or cells that have not undergone genetic recombination; individuals that retain the parental combination of alleles or genetic markers.
Usage: biology; genetics; plural form
Examples
- In the fruit fly experiment, nonrecombinants made up the majority of the offspring.
- The geneticist identified nonrecombinants by their parental phenotypes.
- Nonrecombinants retain the original gene combinations from their parents.
- The ratio of recombinants to nonrecombinants helped determine the distance between genes.
- Most offspring were nonrecombinants, showing that crossing over occurred infrequently in that region.