assort

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It is the chromosomes, not the individual genes, that assort independently.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

If genes are far apart and more likely to cross-over, then they are more likely to assort independently.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

We could try to assort that bunch top-to-bottom, from the front of the train to the caboose.

From Forbes • Jul. 14, 2015

Many species, including primates and wolves, assort themselves by means of a dominance hierarchy.

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2011

Not the objects, I am persuaded, of the Understanding; and yet we take as strong Impressions of them as if we could compare and assort them in a syllogism.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol