Mendelian Genetics

Turner

________ syndrome a monosomic condition in which females have just one sex chromosome reproductive organs do not mature.

Klinefelter

________ syndrome an aneuploid condition where a male has an extra x chromosome, affected individuals have male organs but are sterile.

Polyploidy

________: condition of having more than 2 complete sets of chromosomes, forming a 3n or 4n individual.

Deletion

________: when a chromosomal fragment is lost, resulting in missing genes.

Inversion

________: occurs when a chromosomal fragment breaks off and attaches to its original position but backward.

Duplication

________: when chromosomal segment is repeated.

Nondisjunction

________: occurs when the members of a pair of homologous chromosomes don't separate properly during meiosis I or sister chromatids don't separate properly during meiosis II.

Genetic recombination

________: the production of offspring with a new combination of genes inherited from the parents.

Translocation

________: when the deleted chromosome fragment joins a nonhomologous chromosome.

Map units

________: 1- 1 recombination frequency.