What causes most of the phenotypic abnormalities in someone with Down's Syndrome? A) They have many gene mutations that produce nonfunctional proteins. B) They express too much of some proteins during development. C) Their cells cannot go through mitosis properly during development because they have an odd number of chromosomes. D) Their chromosomes cannot pair during meiosis.

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