Hi!

I have a question where they ask me to say that what the genetic recombination, chromosome segregation are, and the biological importance of each of these concepts.

I know that genetic recombination is a process that occurs in the first meiotic division, specify in prophase I (subphase: pachytene), and consists of the intersection of two of the four chromatids of homologous chromosomes to form a bivalent, beginning the interbreeding with rupture of the two double DNA chains and subsequent alternative splicing, joining in a single fiber of the genes of a chromatid.

And the biological importance of genetic recombination, as a source of variable characters, would be the contribution to the phenomenon of evolution of species, right?

However, I do not know what is chromosome segregation, nor what is its biological significance.

Could you help me, please?

Thanks!