Kristen and Peter Just Had a Baby Boy

question 70

Multiple Choice

Kristen and Peter just had a baby boy.If he has no genetic abnormality,the newborn baby's twenty-third set of chromosomes must contain

• A) two X chromosomes and one Y chromosome.
• B) one X chromosome and two Y chromosomes.
• C) one X chromosome and a very large Y chromosome.
• D) one X chromosome and a smaller Y chromosome.

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