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===Conditions that favor synthesis=== The diverse genome-wide repeats are derived from [[transposable element]]s, which are now understood to "jump" about different genomic locations, without transferring their original copies.<ref name=Watson>{{cite book|last=School|first=James D. Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Tania A. Baker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stephen P. Bell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alexander Gann, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Michael Levine, University of California, Berkeley, Richard Losik, Harvard University; with Stephen C. Harrison, Harvard Medical|title=Molecular biology of the gene|publisher=Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company|location=Boston|isbn=9780321762436|edition=Seventh|year=2014}}</ref> Subsequent shuttling of the same sequences over numerous generations ensures their multiplicity throughout the genome.<ref name=Watson /> The limited [[Genetic recombination|recombination]] of the sequences between two distinct sequence elements known as [[Site-specific recombination|conservative site-specific recombination]] (CSSR) results in inversions of the DNA segment, based on the arrangement of the recombination recognition sequences on the donor DNA and recipient DNA.<ref name=Watson /> Again, the orientation of two of the recombining sites within the donor DNA molecule relative to the asymmetry of the intervening DNA cleavage sequences, known as the crossover region, is pivotal to the formation of either inverted repeats or direct repeats.<ref name=Watson /> Thus, recombination occurring at a pair of inverted sites will invert the DNA sequence between the two sites.<ref name=Watson /> <!--Very stable chromosomes have been observed with a comparatively fewer number of inverted repeats than direct repeats, suggesting a relationship between the stability of and the number of repeats.-->Very stable chromosomes have been observed with comparatively fewer numbers of inverted repeats than direct repeats, suggesting a relationship between chromosome stability and the number of repeats.<ref name=Achaz>{{cite journal|last=Achaz|first=G|author2=Coissac, E |author3=Netter, P |author4= Rocha, EP |title=Associations between inverted repeats and the structural evolution of bacterial genomes|journal=Genetics|date=August 2003|volume=164|issue=4|pages=1279β89|doi=10.1093/genetics/164.4.1279|pmid=12930739|pmc=1462642}}</ref> <!-- ===Most common biological functions using Inverted Repeats=== :This section is "under construction" and will be completed by mid-December. -->
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