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Sometimes chromosome number increase or ...

Sometimes chromosome number increase or decrease due to

A

Non-disjunction of chromosome

B

Genetic repete

C

Mutation

D

All of these

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Change in chromosome number by either increase or decrease of one chromosome is aneuploidy and in the whole set of genome is called polyploidy ploidy results due to non – disjunction of chromosome i.e., fail to separate chromosome during gamete formation.
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