I understand the sex chromosomes and the significance of the extra X making the 47xxy karyotype. but I don't understand why the 1st set of 22 autosomes are divided into 1 and 21. Can you help me? I'm doing a report on Klinefelter syndrome for nursing school and I found this graphic but it confused me on the autosomes.

I'm unable to see the graphic in Chrome.

Sorry it's showing on my screen, it will only let me link to a URL. Is there anyway just to upload a jpeg?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203393949754254&set=a.1694479686637.94555.1377158630&type=3&theater

 

 

Click on the link and see if that works.

Edited March 1, 201411 yr by marybethmartin

Yes, on my screen in Mozilla it shows like this

 

 

 

 

Sorry it's showing on my screen, it will only let me link to a URL. Is there anyway just to upload a jpeg?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203393949754254&set=a.1694479686637.94555.1377158630&type=3&theater

 

Go to "more reply options" on the down right, then "attach files"

Edited March 1, 201411 yr by michel123456

It's probably just showing a normal two chromosomes to compare that the sex chromosomes are abnormal. Without context, though, that's solely a guess.

Thank you, the authors were in Spain and the whole article was in Spanish.