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Question
In tobacco plant, the male gametes have 24 chromosomes.
What is the number of chromosomes in the zygote?
Solution
The zygote is formed by the fusion of a male and a female gamete. Therefore, the number of chromosomes in a zygote is twice as many as that of a gamete, i.e., 48.
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