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Agriculture · Q964

Agronomy

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 964

Q964

The chromosome number in bread wheat is

A.
22
B.
32
C.
42
Answer
D.
62

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The bread wheat genome is a hexaploid genome that possesses 42 chromosomes. The 21 pairs of chromosomes are divided into seven groups of six chromosomes, based on the similarity of gene order.