Down Syndrome Is Most Commonly Caused by

question 90

Multiple Choice

Down syndrome is most commonly caused by

• A) advanced maternal or paternal age.
• B) an error that occurs in the early stages of mitosis, called mosaic pattern.
• C) mutation of the genetic material on the twenty-third chromosome pair.
• D) failure of the twenty-first pair of chromosomes to separate during meiosis.

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