If the haploid number for a plant species is 4, how many...

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If the haploid number for a plant species is 4, how many chromosomes are found in a member of the species that has one of the following characteristics? Explain your reasoning in each case.

octaploidy

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Hi, everyone. Here's our next question. It says which of the following is an impact of OCT deity in agriculture. And our choices are a, it makes plants smaller and weaker. B it reduces the yield and quality of crops. C it results in larger and stronger plants or d none of the above. So let's recall that what oct is. Well, we've got our prefix Octa. So it means eight sets of chromosomes, which is obviously a lot. That's a big set of chromosomes. So why, what would be the impact of having a lot, a large set of chromosomes for plants being grown as food crops? And the answer is, first of all, you have larger cells just to hold all those chromosomes. And that results in larger and stronger plants, which is an advantage in agriculture. You also can introduce beneficial traits with polyploid in agriculture that's been used. Um quite frequently, things like disease resistance and stress tolerance. So literally by adding these genes, adding more chromosomes, you can introduce beneficial traits that you wish. So looking at our answer choices, the one that matches with what we discussed is choice C it results in larger and stronger plants. So we're gonna go ahead and pick that as our answer. We can see that D none of the above is not going to be correct. And then A, it makes plants smaller and weaker. No, it does the opposite. B reduces the yield and quality of crops. Well, this is also not our answer choice because being able to introduce these beneficial treat makes crop yields go up and the quality higher. So B is also not our choice. So which of the following is an impact of oct tolo in agriculture choice C it results in larger and stronger plants. See you in the next video.

If the haploid number for a plant species is 4, how many chromosomes are found in a member of the species that has one of the following characteristics? Explain your reasoning in each case.

octaploidy

Key Concepts

Haploid and Diploid Numbers

Polyploidy

Calculating Chromosome Number in Polyploids

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If the haploid number for a plant species is 4, how many chromosomes are found in a member of the species that has one of the following characteristics? Explain your reasoning in each case.octaploidy

Key Concepts

Haploid and Diploid Numbers

Polyploidy

Calculating Chromosome Number in Polyploids

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If the haploid number for a plant species is 4, how many chromosomes are found in a member of the species that has one of the following characteristics? Explain your reasoning in each case.

octaploidy