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An error in meiosis or mitosis in which members of a pair of homologous chromosomes or a pair of sister chromatids fail to separate properly from each other.Group of answer choicesmonosomynondisjunctioncrossing overinversionNext

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An error in meiosis or mitosis in which members of a pair of homologous chromosomes or a pair of sister chromatids fail to separate properly from each other.Group of answer choicesmonosomynondisjunctioncrossing overinversionNext

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The error in meiosis or mitosis in which members of a pair of homologous chromosomes or a pair of sister chromatids fail to separate properly from each other is called nondisjunction.

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