AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The zygote is endowed with genes from two parents, and thus it is diploid (carrying two sets of chromosomes). The joining of haploid gametes to produce a diploid zygote is a common feature in the sexual reproduction of all organisms except bacteria.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hence, a Zygote is diploid. Each chromosome is present in two homologous, or comparable, copies in almost all human body cells. Due to the presence of both of its parents’ genes, the zygote is diploid (carrying two sets of chromosomes).

Detailed explanation-3: -The ploidy of the zygote produced by fertilization is diploid. Diploid means it has two copies of each chromosome, one from the egg and one from the sperm. During fertilization, two haploid gametes come together. Each gamete, the sperm and the egg, has a haploid genome, meaning it only has one copy of each chromosome.

Detailed explanation-4: -sexual reproduction A type of reproduction that combines the genetic material of two gametes (such as a sperm or egg cell or fungal spores). The gametes have an haploid genome (with a single set of chromosomes, the product of a meiotic division) and combines with one another to produce a zygote (diploid).

Detailed explanation-5: -A haploid cell has only one set of chromosomes; hence it only has half of the genetic material necessary to form a complete organism. Zygote is formed when gametes fuse and is hence diploid in nature.