Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

If a plant’s leaf cells have eight chromosomes, what is most likely?

Correct answer A. Gametes will have 4 chromosomes

Explanation

Leaf cells are somatic and diploid (2n = 8), so meiosis halves this number and the gametes are haploid with four chromosomes each.

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