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Chapter 19, Problem 15TY
Which of the following events or processes can result in Patau syndrome, Turner Syndrome, or Klinefelter syndrome?
a. nondisjunction
b. deletion of part of a chromosome
c. crossing-over
d. independent assortment
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c. For a particular gene, one member of the pair may have one allele, while the other has a different allele
d. They are joined together at the centromere as the two halves of the typical X-shaped chromosome
Change in chromosome numbers will lead to abnormalities. Which of the following is a correct match between the chromosome number and the syndrome?
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XXXY : Klinefelter syndrome
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A geneticist determines that the order of four genes on a specific chromosome is CABD because the recombination frequencies were 35% for C-D, 24% for A-D, 23% for B-D, and 10% for A-B. What has the geneticist constructed?
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