A diploid organism has ten homologous chromosome pairs. Disregarding crossing over, how many genetically
different gametes are possible? What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Each gamete will inherit one of two chromosomes of each of ten homologous pairs.
Therefore, there are 210, or 1024 possibilities.
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