The shorter and longer arms of a submetacentric chromosome are referred to as:

The shorter and longer arms of a submetacentric chromosome are referred to as:
  1. s-arm and l-arm respectively
  2. p-arm and q-arm respectively
  3. q-arm and p-arm respectively
  4. m-arm and n-arm respectively

Solution

Sub-metacentric chromosome or submedian centromere : The centromere is present slightly away from the center of a chromosome or nearer to one end of the chromosome. As a result, chromosome is divided into one shorter (p arm) and one longer (q arm).

Asked in: NEET 2019 (All India)

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