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ISBN: 9781259188121
Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 10TY
Aneuploidy may be the result of
- a. duplication of a region of a chromosome.
- b. inversion of a region of a chromosome.
- c. nondisjunction during meiosis.
- d. interspecies breeding.
- e. all of the above.
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