In a large metropolitan hospital, cells from newborn babies are collected and examined microscopically over a 5-year period. among approximately 7500 newborn males, six have one barr body in the nuclei of their somatic cells. all other newborn males have no barr bodies. among 7500 female infants, four have two barr bodies in each nucleus, two have no barr bodies, and the rest have one.

what is the cause of the unusual number of barr bodies in a small number of male and female infants?

select the six correct statements.

1. the unusual females with two barr bodies result from a normal egg fusing with a sperm containing an x and a y chromosome (nondisjunction during meiosis ii in the father).