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Individuals or tissues consisting of cell lines differing in chromosome number or chromosome structure in certain sectors. Discrepancies in chromosome number can be caused, for example, by non-disjunction in mitosis. Daughter cells that lack a certain number of chromosomes and daughter cells that have the same number of chromosomes too many develop.