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UNIT 3, CHPT 12
CHAPTER 12.4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is nondisjunction? | error in meiosis/mitosis where a pair of homolog chromosomes or sister chromatids fail to seperate properly |
| what is aneuploidy? | zygote having one or more additional chromosome pairs |
| what is monosomic? | diploid cell with only one copy of a particular chromosome instead of the normal two |
| what is trisomic? | diploid cell with three copies of a particular chromosome instead of the normal two |
| what is polypploidy? | organism with more than two complete chromosome pairs |
| what is deletion? | chromosome fragment is lost through breakage |
| what is duplication? | broken chromosome fragment reattaches as an extra segment to a sister/nonsister chromatid |
| what is inversion? | chromosome fragment reattaching to OG chromosome but in reverse orientation |
| what is translocation? | fragment joins a nonhomologous chromosome |