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📅 NSB Round Robin 2013🎓 MS🔄 Round 15#️⃣ Question 15🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

The Lyon law suggests that females are a mosaic because one of the X chromosomes present in a female cell is randomly inactivated during development. What is the name given to the deactivated X chromosome when visualized through a microscope?

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