autopolyploids and allopolyploids?? - Biology Forum

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MrMistery 16 years, 9 months ago

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- March 15, 2008 at 3:15 pm #9291
  faerie
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  Could someone help and explain autopolyploids and allopolyploids please? 😀
- March 15, 2008 at 4:12 pm #82846
  MrMistery
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  autopolyploid organisms are organisms in which the number of chromosomes doubles, triples etc. An allopolyploid organism is an organism formed from the adding of genomes from different organisms – a common example is wheat, which formed from the uniting of 3 different species
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