Question

Turner's syndrome is due to ________
(A) Polyploidy
(B) Polysomic chromosomes
(C) Trisomic chromosomes
(D) Monosomic chromosomes

Answer 1

Turner's syndrome is due to monosomic chromosome. These complements are generally deleterious maninly because of two reasons.

These reasons are that firstly, the missing chromosome changes the overall gene balance in the set of the chromosome.

Secondly, the chromosomes gets directly expressed phenotypically. Hence, they are deleterious in nature generally.

Answer 2

Turner's syndrome is due to ________

(A) Polyploidy

(B) Polysomic chromosomes

(C) Trisomic chromosomes

(D) Monosomic chromosomes

Answer

Turner's syndrome is due to option (D) Monosomic chromosomes

Monosomic chromosomes