HEREDITY
LINKED GENES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Radish plants have 18 chromosomes in each of its leaf cells. How many chromosomes would most likely be found in a radish ovary?
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36
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18
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9
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6
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Therefore the answer option ‘gametes will have 9 chromosomes’ is correct.
Detailed explanation-2: -So the correct option is ‘ Eighteen’.
Detailed explanation-3: -The leaf is diploid, with 16 chromosomes. Microspores have half the number of chromosomes as haploids.
Detailed explanation-4: -Radish plants have 18 chromosomes in each of its leaf cells.
Detailed explanation-5: -Leaf of angiospermic plant has diploid no. of chromosomes. So, as 2n=40, n=20.
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