MCQ
Barr body is associated with:
  • A
    Sex chromosome of female
  • B
    Sex chromosome of male
  • C
    Autosome of female
  • D
    Autosome of male

Answer

  1. Sex chromosome of female

Explanation:

Barr body is referred to the inactive X-chromosome present in somatic cells of a female and the number of Barr bodies is one less than the total number of X chromosomes.

Foreg: In human female (XX), number of barr bodies will be 2 - 1 = 1

n human male (XY), number of barr bodies will be 1 - 1 = 0

This is done so that both males and females have only one functional sex chromosome per cell because human males have only one X chromosome, whereas females have two and hence, twice the genes present on the X chromosome.

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