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How is the child affected, if it has grown from the zygote formed by an XX-egg fertilised by a Y-carrying sperm? What do you call this abnormality?

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(i) The zygote will be XXY. It means the zygote is male with feminine characters (ii) This abnormality is called Klinefelter.s syndrome.
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