What is the term for a mutation that alters the structure of a chromosome? Chromosome Mutation: Rearrangement Chromosome Mutation: Aneuploidy Chromosome Mutation: Polyploidy Rearrangement: Duplication

Chromosome Mutation: Rearrangement

What type of chromosome mutation alters the number of chromosomes? Rearrangement: Deletion Chromosome Mutation: Polyploidy Chromosome Mutation: Aneuploidy Chromosome Mutation: Rearrangement

Chromosome Mutation: Aneuploidy

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Chromosome Mutation: Polyploidy

Chromosomal Variation

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What are chromosomes that have the same genes but slightly different sequences due to variation called?

What are duplicated copies of the same chromosome that remain attached prior to meiosis called?

What is an ordered array of stained chromosomes known as?

What is the term for a mutation that alters the structure of a chromosome?

What type of chromosome mutation alters the number of chromosomes?

What type of chromosome mutation alters the number of sets of chromosomes?

What is the term for a rearrangement where a portion of the chromosome is doubled?

What is the term for a rearrangement where a segment of the chromosome is lost?

What is the term for a rearrangement where a segment of the chromosome is inverted?

What is the term for the movement of a chromosome segment between non-homologous chromosomes or within the same chromosome?

What is it called when a duplicated segment is adjacent to the original region on a chromosome?

What is it called when a duplicated segment is some distance from the original region on a chromosome?

What is it called when a duplicated segment is inverted on a chromosome?

What are the consequences of duplications on chromosomes?

What are the consequences of deletions on chromosomes?

What is the term for recessive mutations being expressed due to a deletion?

What is the term for when one copy of a gene is not enough for normal function?

What are inversions that do not include the centromere and occur in one arm of the chromosome called?

What are inversions that include the centromere and involve both arms of the chromosome called?

What are the consequences of inversions on chromosomes?

What is the term for genes being regulated in a position-dependent manner, possibly leading to expression at inappropriate times or in inappropriate tissues?

What is the term for a translocation where a segment moves from one chromosome to another without reciprocal exchange?

What is the term for a translocation involving a two-way exchange of segments between chromosomes?

What are the effects of translocations on chromosomes?

What is a Robertsonian translocation?

What is aneuploidy and how does it arise?

What is the term for the loss of both members of a homologous pair of chromosomes?

What is the term for the loss of a single chromosome?

What is the term for the gain of a single chromosome?

What is the term for the gain of two homologous chromosomes?

What are the effects of aneuploidy on an organism?

What is Primary Down syndrome and how does it arise?

What is Familial Down syndrome and how does it occur?

What are translocation carriers?

What is uniparental disomy?

What is autopolyploidy and what are its effects?

What is allopolyploidy?

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