Occasionally, chromosomes fail to separate during meiosis, leading to daughter cells that have an abnormal number of chromosomes. This phenomenon is called  

A.  epistasis.
B.  nondisjunction.
C.  crossing over.
D.  pleiotropy.
E.  chromosome inactivation.


B.  nondisjunction.

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