A popular variety of coffee, Coffea arabica, is a tetraploid plant with 44 chromosomes per somatic...

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A popular variety of coffee, Coffea arabica, is a tetraploidplant with 44 chromosomes per somatic cell. What would be thechromosome number in the following Coffea arabica variants:

a. A diploid variant

b.A nullisomic variant

c. A Robertsonian translocation variant

d. A reciprocal translocation variant

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Given that the tetraploid plant has 44 chromosomes means 4n 44 or n 11 A In the diploid variant there will 2n chromosomes which means that diploid plant has 22 chromosomes B Nullisomic    See Answer
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