Biology: Concepts and Investigations
Biology: Concepts and Investigations
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ISBN: 9781260259049
Author: Hoefnagels
Publisher: MCG
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Chapter 14.3, Problem 2MC
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To determine:

Weather polyploidy contributes to sympatric speciation.

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Polyploidy is the situation in which normally diploid cell or organism acquires one or more additional sets of chromosome. Sympatric speciation is the process in which new species evolved from a single ancestral species.

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