1) Women born with an extra X chromosome (XXX) are healthy and phenotypically in
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1) Women born with an extra X chromosome (XXX) are healthy and phenotypically indistinguishable from normal XX women. What is a likely explanation for this finding? How could you test this explanation?And can you please help me with this? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE? I really need help.
2) Assume that A and B are linked and are 50 map units apart. An animal heterozygous at both loci is crossed with one that is homozygous recessive at both loci. What percentage of the offspring will show phenotypes resulting from crossovers? If you did not know that genes A and B were linked, how would you interpret the results of this cross.
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Two of the three X chromosomes are going to be present as barr bodies, which are mostly deactivated. The remaining active genes on the Barr bodies are well enough regulated that having extra copies of the gene is not going to cause any problems for the cell.
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