(urth) Rajan and Food

[David Stockhoff]

You're right. And hybrid corn is tetraploid.

It's been a long time since college.

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
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Not to nitpick... okay, to nitpick.  Diploidy is what we
have (except sperm and egg cells) and I think most organisms
have.  Double the usual number of chromosomes is
tetraploidy.

Jerry

--- On Wed, 4/29/09, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

> > In diploidy, the number of genes is doubled. Sometimes the
> > result is all-around greater viability, as with corn, and
> > sometimes it is the opposite.
>   



      


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