Contact: Andy Fell
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Spaghetti Junctions

Caption: Multichromosome Holliday junctions, modeled with spaghetti. Twisted spaghetti strands represen t DNA strands that have crossed multiple times. Such multiple crossovers were seen in yeast with a nonfunctioning SGS1 gene.

Credit: Neil Hunter, UC Davis

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