When Looking Through a Microscope at an Entire Set of Human

question 56

Multiple Choice

When looking through a microscope at an entire set of human male chromosomes, how would you be able to differentiate an autosome pair from a sex chromosome pair?

• A) The sex chromosome pair would be about 10 times larger than the autosome pair.
• B) The circular-shaped cells would be the autosomes and the square shapes would be the sex chromosomes.
• C) There would be three cells in the autosome "pair" and two cells in the sex chromosome "pair."
• D) The shape of the sex chromosomes would differ, whereas each autosome pair would look identical.

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