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Agriculture · Q463

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 463

Q463

Autopolyploidy is known as

A.
Hybrid polyploidy
B.
Simple polyploidy
Answer
C.
Segmental polyploidy
D.
All of these

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Autopolyploidy is known as Simple polyploidy.
Polyploidy is a mutation in which offspring have a multiple of some ancestral set of chromosomes. Polyploidy can occur either within a species (autopolyploidy) or between different species.
An individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of more than two complete copies of the genome of a single ancestral species.