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posledela
3 years ago
10

When a somatic cell has both sets of chromosomes it is called

Biology
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ser-zykov [4K]3 years ago
5 0

To be more specific, the loss of a single chromosome from a diploid genome (diploid cell-cell containing two set of chromosomes (2n), one set inherited from each parent) is called monosomy (2n-1). The gain of one chromosome is called trisomy (2n+1).


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