Most Cultivated Bananas Are Triploid

question 22

Multiple Choice

Most cultivated bananas are triploid.How could these be generated from diploid parent banana plants?

• A)Non-disjunction in meiosis followed by normal fertilization
• B)Non-disjunction in mitosis followed by normal fertilization
• C)Fertilization of a haploid egg by two haploid sperm
• D)Fertilization of a haploid egg by a haploid sperm
• E)Fertilization of a diploid somatic cell by a haploid sperm

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