crossing over and genetic recombination

[sweetxd]

what's the idfference between crossing over and genetic recombination?
or is it the same thing?

[Caspase]

They are the same.

The forum said the above sentence was too short to post so I wrote this sentence.

[MrMistery]

no, they are not the same thing. genetic recombination includes crossing-over, but also other things like the random distribution of chromosomes in daughter cells.

[sdekivit]

crossing-over is typically in reproductive cells, but genetic recombination in general can also occur in somatic cells.

[sachin]

Recombination can be occur by other processes also.... looping .... some transposons...

[Dr.Stein]

Crossing over results in genetic recombination.
Genetic recombination is not generated only from crossing over.

If crossing over is a truck, then genetic recombination is a car.
Truck is a kind of car, however cars are not always trucks