In tobacco plant, the male gametes have 24 chromosomes.
(i) What is the number of chromosomes in the female gamete?
(ii) What is the number of chromosomes in the zygote?


In a tobacco plant, there are 24 chromosomes in male gametes. Thus, the haploid number of chromosomes is 24. N= 24.

(i) The female gamete or an egg contains the haploid number of chromosomes. Therefore, there are 24 chromosomes in the female zygote.

(ii) Zygote contains a diploid number of chromosomes. Therefore, 2N is 2 x 24, which is 48 number of chromosomes.

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