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Chapter 12.4 vocabulary
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
09/01/2011

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A human developmental disorder cause by trisomy of chromosome 21
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Down Syndrome
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the state of having 3 copies of one particular the of chromosome
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trisomy
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If both homologs or both sister chromatids move to the same pole of the parent cell which causes the productst of meiosis to be abnormal
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nondisjuntion
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having only one copy of a particular type of chromosome
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monosmy
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"without form" cells that have too many or too few chromosomes
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aneuploid
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A syndrome seen in human who have an XXY karyotype. People with this syndrome have male sex organs, may have some female traits, and are sterile
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Klinefelter syndrome
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A human genetic disorder caused by the presence of only one X- chromosome and no Y chromosome ("XO"). individuals with this condition are female but sterile
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Turner syndrome
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