Submitted by NeedleworkerCapital8 t3_111lkt7 in askscience
SignalDifficult5061 t1_j8jramu wrote
Reply to comment by CrateDane in Why does X-inactivation happen? by NeedleworkerCapital8
nice answers!
I'll just that extra copies of a single autosome (so 3) generally end in embryonic lethality, except for Down Syndrome and a few others very rarely. So dosage is generally important for whole chromosomes.
Extra X chromosomes lead to relatively mild phenotypes vs extra single autosomes, which may relate to X inactivation.
Total genome duplication isn't limited to just plants, and some frogs have up to 12 sets. I don't know a ton about that, other than that often many of those chromosomes aren't fully functional.
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