Question 2

(Multiple Choice)

A karyotype shows that a child has Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY). If the child is also color- blind (due to a recessive X- linked allele), despite his parents having normal color vision, in which parent and stage of meiosis did nondisjunction occur?


A) father in meiosis I
B) mother in meiosis I or II
C) mother in meiosis II
D) father in meiosis II
E) mother in meiosis I

Answer

C