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Barr body is absent in
BiologyPrinciples of Inheritance and VariationNEET
Options:
  • A Klinefelter's syndrome
  • B Turner's syndrome
  • C Normal female
  • D Down syndrome in female
Solution:
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The correct answer is: Turner's syndrome
Barr body is a compact structure of chromatin formed in the nuclei of mammalian females as a means to allow sex dosage compensation. A person with Turner syndrome will have no Barr bodies due to them only have 1 X chromosome. Instead of having a set of 44 autosomes + 1 pair of sex chromosomes (either XX or XY) - the normal human karyotype, the person has only 44 autosomes + 1 X chromosomes.

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