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Does recombination occur in both chromatid of a chromosome with homologous chromosome? Or only 1 chromatid participate in crossing over?

The diagram you provide is just a schematic, showing a simple version to clarify what is happening in a crossover. It seems that at least once crossover has to occur in each bivalent for normal ...
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Storing bacteria in a dry, room temperature long-term storage whilst maintaining viability

Lyophilization, aka freeze-drying, is probably the go-to method of microbial preservation without the need for cold storage. It's how bacterial strains purchased from commercial culture collections ...
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Storing bacteria in a dry, room temperature long-term storage whilst maintaining viability

The answer to this strongly depends on the species of bacterium you are working with. The only ones that I know of that are capable of withstanding any dehydration process are those that form spores. ...
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Does recombination occur in both chromatid of a chromosome with homologous chromosome? Or only 1 chromatid participate in crossing over?

I think like that , different alleles coding for different traits are present on different positions on two chromatids So both can participate in the recombination only when chromatids of torquoise ...
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