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Question 37
In tobacco plant, the male gametes have twenty-four chromosomes. What is the number of chromosomes in the female gamete? What is the number of chromosomes in the zygote??

Answer 1

There are 24 chromosomes in the male gamete of a tobacco plant. Therefore, the number of chromosomes in the female gamete is 24 and the number of chromosomes in the zygote is 48 as it is formed after fertilization, i.e, fusion of both male and female gametes.