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genetics help please?

sarah & john are a couple and they are having difficulty having children. sarah has had 6 miscarriage. you examine their karyotype. sarah's karyotype is normal but john has a balanced robertson translocation that involves both of his number 21 chromosomes.

a. how many chromosomes are found in john's karyotype?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    If its just a translocation then he still has the same number of chromosomes, but the chromosomal DNA has just been jumbled about probably by homologous recombination

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