Using your understanding of mitosis and karyotypes, now work through the hypothetical questions prompted below. 1. Imagine you are an obstetrician and are performing early genetic testing on a 10-week-old fetus (Patient 4). Below is the resulting karyotype. a. From the karyotype, what can you tell about the fetus? (In terms of biological sex and chromosome number). b. Using the table provided in this section, identify what condition would be associated with this karyotype.
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