(a) What is meant by the term non-disjunction? (b) Give an example of genetic disorder caused by: (i) Non-disjunction; (ii) Gene mutation.

      

(a) What is meant by the term non-disjunction?
(b) Give an example of genetic disorder caused by: (i) Non-disjunction; (ii) Gene mutation.

  

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John
(a) Failure of homologous chromosomes to segregate during meiosis/ anaphase I/ Meiosis I

(b) (i) Down's syndrome (or Mongolism), Turner's syndrome, Klinefelter's Syndrome.

ii) Albinism, single cell anaemia, haemophilia, colour blindness, chondrodytrophic dwarfism/ Achondroplasia
johnmulu answered the question on May 13, 2017 at 07:12


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