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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
CBSEENBI12003130

Chromosome complement with 2n - 1 is called

  • monosomy

  • nullisomy

  • trisomy

  • tetrasomy

Solution

A.

monosomy

Aneuploidy is a change in the chromosme number that does not involve entire sets of chromosome. It can be of following types:

(i) Monosomic (2n - 1)

(ii) Trisomic (2n +1)

(iii) Nullisomic (2n - 2)

(iv) Tetrasomic (2n + 2)

(v) Double monosomic (2n - 1 - 1)

(vi) Doble trisomic (2n + 1 + 1)