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1.
Recombinant offspring
Answer: non-parental types, experience differing traits than their parents, a mix of alleles, due to homologous recombination during meiosis
2.
Parental offspring
Answer: exhibit the same allele type as the parents
3.
Linkage
Answer: when two alleles travel together because they are close together on the chromosome
4.
Recombination frequency
Answer: the average number of crossovers directly relates to how close two alleles are from each other on the chromosome
5.
Nondisjunction
Answer: when homologous pairs or sister chromatids fail to separate during meiosis
6.
nondisjunction is caused by...
Answer: Misaligned or incomplete synapses, dysfunction of the spindle apparatus that facilitates chromosome migration
7.
Meiosis 1 nondisjunction
Answer: Results in two gametes that lack a chromosome and two gametes with two copies of the chromosome
8.
Meiosis 2 nondisjunction
Answer: One gamete that lacks a chromosome, one gamete that has two chromosomes, and two normal gametes
9.
Aneuploidy
Answer: an individual with an error in chromosome number
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