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Verb: recombine  `ree-kum'bIn
  1. Undergo genetic recombination
    "The DNA can recombine"
     
  2. Cause genetic recombination
    "should scientists recombine DNA?"
     
  3. To combine or put together again

Derived forms: recombining, recombined, recombines

See also: recombination

Type of: alter, change, combine, compound, modify

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