About 5% of individuals with Down syndrome have a chromosomal translocation in which a third copy of chromosome 21 is attached to chromosome 14. If this translocation occurred in a parent's gonad, how

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Answer: nondisjunction

Explanation: its an error in meiosis chromosomes fail to separate

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