Which of the following is among the results of nondisjunction?

a. a change in the status of a daughter cell from diploid to haploid
b. a failure of spindle fibres to separate a homologous pair of chromosomes
c. one pole receiving neither member of a homologous pair of chromosomes
d. a change in the status of a daughter cell from haploid to diploid


Ans: c. one pole receiving neither member of a homologous pair of chromosomes

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