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What is the difference between the sex cells of a nondisjunction that occurred during meiosis I and the sex cells of a nondisjunction that occurred during meiosis II?
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What is the difference between the sex cells of a nondisjunction that occurred during meiosis I and the sex cells of a nondisjunction that occurred during meiosis II?

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Answer: Homologous chromosomes do not separate in nondisjunction errors in meiosis I, but sister chromatids separate properly in meiosis II. Thus, each of the germ cells with an extra chromosome will have a maternally derived chromosome and a paternally derived chromosome.

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