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Q: What human disease is caused by non-disjunction?
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What is the genetic disease caused by maternal nondisjunction of autosome 21?

Down's Syndrome


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What disorder is caused by nondisjunction in males?

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Nondisjunction is the failure of a homolog to separate during meiosis causing trisomy (an extra chromosome) or monosomy (a missing chromosome), it can be harmful because it is a mutation that can cause many devastating disease, for example nondisjunction of the 21st chromosome causes down syndrome, another example of nondisjunction being harmful, is nondisjunction of the sex chromosomes, causing Turner's or Klinefelter's syndrome two very devastating diseases.


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What is the difference between translocation and nondisjunction?

Nondisjunction is when a Chromosome is unable to separate correctly during cell devision. Translocation (In Chromosomes) is when an abnormality is caused by the rearrangement of parts between non-homologous Chromosomes.


Human sex cells have 46 individual chromosomes?

Yes, except when there is an occurrence such as nondisjunction.


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