The shorter and longer arms of a submetacentric chromosome are referred to as:

m-arm and n-arm respectively

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s-arm and l-arm respectively

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p-arm and q-arm respectively

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q-arm and p-arm respectively

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Solution

The correct option is C p-arm and q-arm respectively
The sub-metacentric chromosome has the centromere slightly away from the middle region resulting in one shorter arm p (p stands for petite) and one longer arm q (q for queue).

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