Wednesday, February 18, 2009
If the disease is chromosomal abnormality, describe the abnormality.
The disorder is caused by nondisjunction. For example, is a pair of six chrormosomes fails to seperate during the creation of an egg (or sperm), this is known as nondisjunction. When that egg combines with a normal sperm to form an embryo, that embryo may end up with two Xs and one Y, making it XXY.
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