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Trisomy 8 usually leads to early miscarriage of a fetus. However, adult individuals have been found with cells that have three copies of chromosome 8 in them. How can this be?
 
  A. The trisomic 8 adults likely have a mosaic region with trisomy 8
  B. The trisomic cells underwent complete nondisjunction.
  C. The trisomic cells underwent a meiotic nondisjunction.
 
  D. This individual must be triploid.
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