NEET Biology question
A cell at the telophase stage is observed by a student in a plant brought from the field. He tells his teacher that this cell is not like other cells at the telophase stage — there is no formation of a cell plate, and thus the cell contains a greater number of chromosomes compared to other dividing cells. This would result in
Answer: (D)
Solution
Failure of cell-plate (cytokinesis) formation after a normal nuclear division (karyokinesis) means the entire duplicated chromosome set remains together in a single cell rather than being partitioned into two daughter cells — this doubles the whole chromosome complement in that cell, producing polyploidy (a whole
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