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Title: If nondisjunction occurs during meiosis,
Post by: dfysb54w on Mar 29, 2018
If nondisjunction occurs during meiosis,
  a. the resulting sex cells will be heterogametes.
  b. one-half of the resulting cells will exhibit trisomy and the other half monosomy.
  c. diploid cells will be produced.
  d. all gametes would lack a chromosome and these gametes would be infertile.
  e. none of the gametes will be capable of achieving fertilization.

Question 2

Choose any and all of the following that would describe a gamete that is missing one chromosome.
  a. The chromosome number would be expressed as 2n  1.
  b. One chromosome would occur without its homologue.
  c. The condition would be called monosomy.
  d. The chromosome number would be expressed as 2n  1 and the condition would be called
  monosomy.
  e. The chromosome number would be expressed as 2n  1, the condition would be called
  monosomy, and one chromosome would occur without its homologue


Title: If nondisjunction occurs during meiosis,
Post by: leanicole22 on Mar 29, 2018
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Title: If nondisjunction occurs during meiosis,
Post by: dfysb54w on Mar 29, 2018
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