What explains the viability of individuals with aneuploidies for the sex chromosomes?

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b. The lack of crossing-over between the X and the Y chromosomes.
c. Sex chromosomes are smaller than most autosomes.


d. The information on sex chromosomes is duplicated on the autosomes.
e. Dosage compensation, by which one X chromosome per cell is inactivated


e

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