Question

g What is the likely fate of the acentric fragment (the part not connected to the other chromatids) when the homologous chromosomes separate during anaphase I

Answer 1

The acentric fragment gets lost during anaphase I

Explanation:

There are different kinds of structural chromosomal abnormalities. One of them is the formation of a shorter chromosome and an acentric fragment. By deletion, it might occur a fragment loss in a segment of a chromosome. The chromosome breaks, resulting in a much shorter chromosome, plus a smaller fragment without centromere.

As the acentric fragment does not have a centromere, so during division, it will not be properly directed to one of the poles, and hence, it will be lost during the process of cellular division.