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Biology Question on Principles of Inheritance and Variation

Chromosome complement with 2n12n - 1 is called

A

monosomy

B

nullisomy

C

trisomy

D

tetrasomy

Answer

monosomy

Explanation

Solution

When a change in the chromosome number does not involve entire sets of chromosome and restrict to only a few of chromosome, the situation is called aneuploidy. Aneuploidy may be of following types
(a) Monosomic (2n1)(2 n-1)
(b) Trisomic (2n+1)(2 n+1)
(c) Nullisomic (2n2)(2 n-2)
(d) Tetrasomic (2n+2)(2 n+2)
(e) Double momosomic (2n11)(2 n-1-1)
(f) Double trisomic (2n+1+1)(2 n+1+1)