A woman is missing one of her X chromosomes. What is the genetic significance of this problem?
A. She is experiencing "haploidy."
B. She is a phenotypic male and a genotypic female.
C. She is a phenotypic female and a genotypic male.
D. She has only one allele for the genes on the X chromosome.
D
Women usually have a pair of X chromosomes, and thus have two alleles for each gene present on the X chromosome. When a woman has only one X chromosome, she has only one allele for each gene on the X chromosome. Thus, she would have some physical differences in her sexual characteristics because the genes for female sexual differentiation and development are located on the X chromosomes.
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