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Pedigrees |
Chart showing the pattern of inheritance of a trait through generations in a family |
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Duplications |
Repeated section of a chromosome |
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Deletion |
Loss of part of a chromosome |
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Inversion |
Structural rearrangement of a chromosome in which part of it becomes oriented in the reverse direction |
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Translocation |
Structural change of a chromosome in which a broken piece gets reattached in the wrong location |
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Nondisjunction |
Failure of a sister chromatids or homologous chromosomes to seperate during nuclear division |
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Aneuploidy |
A chromosome abnormality in which an Individual's cells carry too many or too few copies of a particular chromosome |
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Polyploid |
Having three or more of each type of chromosome characteristic of the species |