(urth) Rajan and Food

[Jerry Friedman]

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.