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Robertsonian translocation
The long arms of two acrocentric chromosomes become joined to a common centromere through a translocation, generating a metacentric chromosome with two long arms and another chromosome with two very short arms. The smaller chromosome is often lost because very small chromosomes do not have enough mass to segregate properly during mitosis and meiosis.





#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology #Structural and numerical alterations of chromosomes #Part B Pointers