The green-nose fly normally has six chromosomes: two metacentric and four acrocentric. A geneticist examines the chromosomes of an oddlooking green-nose fly and discovers that it has only five chromosomes; three of them are metacentric and two are acrocentric. Explain how this change in chromosome number might have taken place.

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