An individual who possesses one inverted chromosome and one that is not inverted is said to be a/an:
A) Inversion heterozygote
B) Inversion mutant
C) Inversion homozygote
D) All of these
E) None of these

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An individual who possesses one inverted chromosome and one that is not inverted is called an inversion heterozygote. Inversion heterozygotes have different alleles of the same gene on each chromosome, with one copy likely to be functional, and the other copy containing a mutation or a rearrangement, such as an inversion.

An Individual Who Possesses One Inverted Chromosome and One That