Butterflies have an X-Y sex-determination system that is different from that of flies or humans. Female butterflies may be either XY or X0, while butterflies with two or more X chromosomes are males. This photograph shows a tiger swallowtail gynandromorph, which is half male (left side) and half female (right side). Given that the first division of the zygote divides the embryo into the future right and left halves of the butterfly, propose a hypothesis that explains how nondisjunction during the first mitosis might have produced this unusual-looking butterfly. Question is also in the picture. 14. SYNTHESIZE YOUR KNOWLEDGEButterflies have an X-Y sex determination system that is different from that of fliesor humans. Female butterflies may be either XY or X0, while butterflies with twoor more X chromosomes are males. This photograph shows a tiger swallowtailgynandromorph, which is half male (left side) and half female (right side). Giventhat the first division of the zygote divides the embryo into the future right andleft halves of the butterfly, propose a hypothesis that explains how nondisjunctionduring the first mitosis might have produced this unusual-looking butterfly.

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Butterflies have an X-Y sex-determination system that is different from that of flies or humans. Female butterflies may be either XY or X0, while butterflies with two or more X chromosomes are males. This photograph shows a tiger swallowtail gynandromorph, which is half male (left side) and half female (right side). Given that the first division of the zygote divides the embryo into the future right and left halves of the butterfly, propose a hypothesis that explains how nondisjunction during the first mitosis might have produced this unusual-looking butterfly.

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14. SYNTHESIZE YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Butterflies have an X-Y sex determination system that is different from that of flies
or humans. Female butterflies may be either XY or X0, while butterflies with two
or more X chromosomes are males. This photograph shows a tiger swallowtail
gynandromorph, which is half male (left side) and half female (right side). Given
that the first division of the zygote divides the embryo into the future right and
left halves of the butterfly, propose a hypothesis that explains how nondisjunction
during the first mitosis might have produced this unusual-looking butterfly.

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