Normal events in mitosis gives rise to daughter cells with exactly the same chromosome number and genetic material. What may be expected to happen chromosomally and genetically to: an unfertilized egg that undergoes mitosis, but fails to undergo cytokinesis? a cell with a chromosome that lost its centromere? a cell with a chromosome that contains two centromeres?

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Problem 6SQ: After mitosis, each daughter cell contains genetic instructions that are ______ and _____ chromosome...
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Normal events in mitosis gives rise to daughter cells with exactly the same chromosome number and genetic material. What may be expected to happen chromosomally and genetically to:

  1. an unfertilized egg that undergoes mitosis, but fails to undergo cytokinesis?
  2. a cell with a chromosome that lost its centromere?
  3. a cell with a chromosome that contains two centromeres?
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