NEET 1997 · Class 12

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

A person with the sex chromosomes XXY suffers from

  1. (A)gynandromorphism
  2. (B)Klinefelter's syndrome
  3. (C)Down's syndrome
  4. (D)Turner's syndrome

The NCERT line that answers it

Verbatim line

In Turner's syndrome, one X chromosome is missing and the sex chromosome is as XO, and in Klinefelter's syndrome, the condition is XXY.

Chapter
Principles of Inheritance and Variation
Section
4.8.3 Chromosomal Disorders
Page
27
Words matched
15 of 23

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0, emb=0.4986, combined=0.6991). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that Klinefelter's syndrome has the XXY sex chromosome condition, which directly matches the MCQ's question about a person with XXY chromosomes.

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