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Agriculture · Q338

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 338

Q338

Allosomes are

A.
Somatic chromosomes
B.
Autosomes
C.
Sex chromosomes
Answer
D.
Chromatins with histones

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Allosomes are Sex chromosomes.
Allosome is a chromosome that differs from an ordinary autosome in form, size, and behavior. The human sex chromosomes, a typical pair of mammal allosomes, determine the sex of an individual created in sexual reproduction.
Nettie Stevens and Edmund Beecher Wilson both independently discovered sex chromosomes in 1905.