The most frequently occurring form of Down syndrome results from
A) an extra broken piece of a twenty-first chromosome attaching to another chromosome.
B) an error during the early stages of mitosis.
C) a failure of the twenty-first pair of chromosomes to separate during meiosis.
D) the inheritance of an extra X chromosome.
Answer: C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false