Haploidy, Monosomy, Mosaicism, Triploidy and Balanced Translocation explained

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Channel: Nikolay's Genetics Lessons · 2017 · Education

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Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. Sets of chromosomes refer to the number of maternal and paternal chromosome copies, respectively, in each homologous chromosome pair, which chromosomes naturally exist as.

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