Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
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Chapter 13, Problem 49P
Seedless watermelons that you find in the supermarket are triploids, where x = 11.
| a. | At what frequency are balanced gametes generated by triploid watermelons? |
| b. | What is the probability that a particular seed in a triploid watermelon will be viable? (Recall that a viable seed is a euploid zygote.) |
| c. | What is the ploidy of the viable seed in part (b)? More than one answer may apply. |
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