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  • noun the act of forming into a spiral

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  • These might consist of forces directly exerted on the gene by other genes, whether allelic or not (Muller, 1935), or they might be resultants of the state of spiralization, etc., of the chromosome region, circumstances which in their turn are in part dependent on synaptic forces (Ephrussi and Sutton, 1944 et seq.).

    Hermann J. Muller - Nobel Lecture 1964

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