Most Cultivated Bananas Are Triploid

question 57

Multiple Choice

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

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

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