In Certain Plants Each Cell Contains Double The Normal Chromosome Number

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In certain plants each cell contains double the normal chromosome number. Polyploidy can occurs in multiple series of 3. The failure of homologous chromosomes to separate from each other is known as. Each pair of chromosomes in a diploid cell is considered to be a homologous chromosome set.

This type of cell division is good for basic growth repair and maintenance. Then the changes in no. The period prior to the synthesis of DNA.

Each of these methods of cell division has special characteristics. Before a dividing cell enters mitosis it undergoes a period of growth called interphase. Below is a table summarizing the chromosome and chromatid number during mitosis in humans.

Each chromosome is made of protein and a single molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid DNA. We learned in earlier chapters that familiar eukaryotes such as plants animals and fungi carry in their cells either one chromosome set or two sets. A homologous chromosome pair consists of one chromosome donated from the mother and one from the father.

In the figure initial chromosome number is 4 2n4. Organisms that have more or less than the normal number of sets are aberrant euploids. When a cell contain more than two set of chromosomes ie.

Gametes sperm or egg of male or female are haploid 1N in nature who upon the process of fertilization result into zygote diploid - 2N that contains the two haploid sets of chromosomes of parents ie 1N1N 2N thus become double the number of chromosomes that represent the species specific number 23 23 46 as in man. Each of the three haploid nuclei in the germinated pollen grain must contain 12 chromosomes and each of the 8 nuclei within the embryo sac contain 12 chromosmes. A gain or loss in the number of chromosomes from the normal 46 is called aneuploidy.