The Most Frequently Occurring Form of Down Syndrome Results from

question 61

Multiple Choice

The most frequently occurring form of Down syndrome results from

• A) an extra broken piece of a twenty-first chromosome attaching to another chromosome.
• B) an error during the early stages of mitosis.
• C) a failure of the twenty-first pair of chromosomes to separate during meiosis.
• D) the inheritance of an extra X chromosome.

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