The type of chromosome abnormality that yields a long chromosome consisting of most of two acrocentric chromosomes is a(n)

A) Robertsonian translocation.
B) pericentric inversion.
C) paracentric inversion.
D) reciprocal translocation.


A) Robertsonian translocation.

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threshold potential along a neuron?

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