Principles of Inheritance and Variation Question 184

184. In humans, male XXY and female XXXX occur due to

(a) aneuploidy

(b) euploidy

(c) autosomal syndrome

(d) none of these

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Answer : a

Hints & Solution

(a) Aneuploidy is numerical change in the chromosome number in the genome. Euploidy is the phenomenon of having multiple or more than twice the number of genome.