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Name a disorder a human suffers from as a result of monosomy of the sex chromosome. Give the karyotype and write the symptoms.

• Turner’s Syndrome is caused due to of one of the X-chromosomes in the human female.


• Karyotype is 45 with X0.


• Symptoms: They have short stature; secondary sexual characters do no develop.


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