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I was reading about chromosomal disorders and encountered a line stating that

'An individual may lack one of any one pair of chromosomes'

So does it mean that an individual cannot have monosomy of two different chromosome pairs? Or does it has some other meaning. Please Help.

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The only "complete" monosomy that is survivable in humans is Turner syndrome.

So your source is a bit silly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosomy

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Theoretically anything can happen, but you also have to take into account firstly, the probability of such an incident (which is particularly rare in this case) and secondly, if the creature can survive after or even until birth, to be counted as an organism with that kind of anomaly. For instance, the odds of trisomy 21 taking place in humans is not much greater than that of trisomy 11, but almost all fetuses with trisomy 11 would be aborted and never make it to this world.

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