Aneuploidy

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Created by
Mak Weng Huen Hailey (Tmjc)

Subdecks (2)

Cards (13)

  • caused by nondisjunction (failure to separate) during meiosis and mitosis
    • results in: gametes producing extra chromosome (n+1) or missing chromosome (n-1)
  • Trisomic?
    3 copies of chromosome (2n+1)
  • Monosomic?

    having only a single copy of a chromosome (2n-1)