Conditions of a karyotype 2n 1 and 2n 2 are called

NEET Biology question

Conditions of a karyotype and are called

(A)AneuploidyCorrect
(B)Polyploidy
(C)Allopolyploidy
(D)Monosomy

Answer: (A)

Solution

Aneuploidy refers to the gain or loss of one or more individual chromosomes from the normal diploid set, resulting in karyotypes such as (trisomy), (monosomy), (tetrasomy) or (nullisomy) — all generally expressible as or .

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