Multiple choice

A 16 year girl is suffering from a chromosomal abnormality that causes her to be unusually short in stature (average 4'7), to have a webbed neck, and to generally lack feminine secondary sexual characteristics. This may be due to

  1. Triple-X syndrome

  2. Turner syndrome

  3. XYY syndrome

  4. Klinefelter syndrome

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Women with Turner syndrome are essentially postmenopausal from early childhood and are sterile because their ovaries do not develop normally and they do not ovulate.