Principle of Inheritance and VariationHard

Question

Number of Barr bodies in XXXX female

Options

A.1
B.2
C.3
D.4

Solution

Barr body is a condensed mass of chromatin found in the nuclei placental mammals which contain one or moe X-chromosomes, so named after its discoverer Murray Barr. Thenumber of Barr bodies is one less than the number of X-chromosomes present.So, the number of Barr bodies in XXXX female are 3 .

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