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Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 518

Q518

Arabica coffee is

A.
Diploid
B.
Triploid
C.
Tetrapolid
Answer
D.
Hexaploid

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Arabica coffee is Tetraploid.
It is a species of flowering plant in the coffee and madder family Rubiaceae. It is believed to be the first species of coffee to have been cultivated and is currently the dominant cultivar, representing about 60% of global production.
Coffea arabica is the only polyploid species of the genus Coffea, as it carries 4 copies of the 11 chromosomes (44 total) instead of the 2 copies of diploid species, thus tetraploid.