Triploid

true, that is why triploid plants are always sterile and need to reproduce vegetatively, while tetraploid, hexaploid etc plant can produce seeds

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... check the result is right is to use several tests and take the majority result as the true result. Second question: Could meiosis take place in a triploid (3n) or a tetraloid (4n) cell? Explain your answer. My answer: Meiosis could take place in a tetraloid cell as there is an even number of chromosomes ...

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Aren't liver cells triploid? If so, yes it has the same chromosomes - just 3 copies instead of the usual 2. That's right isn't it...? And yes the gene for the stomach protein could be found in the cheek cells. All human cells (except ...

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... correct?? This was my first shot at the disadvantage: Would a disadvantage be that if a polyploid mates with a normal diploid, the F1 hybrid is triploid; this causes massive amounts of aneuploidy in the offspring, leading to almost invariable sterility of hybrid offspring?? I was told these ...

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... ending up with two copies of each chromosome in each cell. Humans have 23 such pairs of chromosomes in each body cell, so 46 chromosomes in all. A triploid has a complete extra set of unpaired chromosomes. So if a triploid human were possible, it would have 23 + 23 +23 = 69 chromosomes in each ...

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