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Choose the phrase from the right column that best fits the term in the left colu

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Question

Choose the phrase from the right column that best fits the term in the left column. Each term will have only one answer and each answer can only be used once.                    

            A.   Euploids                            1. Having more than two complete sets of chromosomes.

            B.   Barr Body                          2. Abnormal meiotic event that often gives rise to aneuploids.

            C.   Paracentric                                    3. Male and female flowers exist on different plants.

            D.   Polyploidy                                    4. A mechanism explaining dosage compensation in mammals.

          E.   Genic Balance Theory       5. Male and female flowers exist on the same plant.

            F.   Aneuploids                         6. A mechanism explaining sex-determination in Drosophila.

            G.   Monoecious                       7. Having complete sets of chromosomes.

            H.   Dioecious                          8. A dark spot on the nucleus of female human cells.

            I.   Lyon’s Hypothesis             9. A chromosomal inversion that includes the centromere.

            J.   Non-disjunction                  10. Lacking one or more chromosomes.

            K. Heterogametic                    11. Individual that contains different sex chromosomes.

            L.   Pericentric                         12. A chromosomal inversion that does not includes the centromere.

Explanation / Answer

Barr body - A dark spot on the nucleus of female human cells.

Pericentic - A chromosomal inversion that includes centromere

Paracentric - A chromosomal inversion that doesn't includes centromere

Monoecious - Male and female flowers exist on the same plant.

Dioecious - male and female flowers exist on different plant.

Euploid - having complete sets of chromosomes.

Polyploidy- having more than two sets of chromosomes

Aneuploidy - abnormal meiotic event that often gives rise to aneuploids.

Lyon's hypothesis - A mechanism explaining dosage compensation in mammals