10 Questions
What is the term for the presence of an additional set of chromosomes in an organism?
Polyploidy
What is the result of meiosis nondisjunction?
Aneuploidy
What is the term for the deletion of one chromosome?
Monosomy
What is the karyotype of a normal male?
46,XY
What is the result of the centromere splitting in the wrong plane?
Isochromosomes
What is the term for the exchange of chromosomal segments between nonhomologous chromosomes?
Translocation
What is the term for the reunion of a broken portion of a chromosome in an inverted manner?
Inversion
What is the karyotype of a female with Turner syndrome?
45,XO
What is the result of the loss of telomeres, generating sticky ends?
Ring chromosomes
What is the term for the display of chromosomal information in an ideogram?
Karyotyping
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