What Is the Evolutionary Significance of Crossing Over

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Essay

What is the evolutionary significance of crossing over?

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Definitions:

Short-term Memory

The capacity for holding a small amount of information in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory, it's the ability to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended, acting almost as a buffer for stimuli through the senses.

Schemas

Cognitive structures or frameworks that help individuals organize and interpret information.

Short-term

Describing something of limited duration, often applied to memory systems that hold information temporarily.