A cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, is caused by chromosomal translocation. How does this condition arise? due to addition of extra chromosome in the pair of homozygous chromosomes due to attachment of broken part of one chromosome to another due to duplication of entire set of chromosomes
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