Select the incorrect match:

A Submetacentric chromosomes – L-shaped chromosomes

B Allosomes – Sex chromosomes

C Lampbrush chromosomes – Diplotene bivalents

D Polytene chromosomes – Oocytes of amphibians

The answer is D.

Solution

Polytene chromosomes occur in dipteran salivary glands.

Polytene chromosomes are found in the salivary glands of insects of order Diptera, not in oocytes of amphibians (which have lampbrush chromosomes).

Concept polytene-lampbrush-chromosomes

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