Most cultivated bananas are triploid. How could these be generated from diploid parent banana plants?
A. nondisjunction in mitosis followed by normal fertilization
B. All of these answer choices are different options for creating triploid cells.
C. fertilization of a haploid egg by a haploid sperm
D. fertilization of a diploid somatic cell by a haploid sperm
E. nondisjunction in meiosis followed by normal fertilization
E. nondisjunction in meiosis followed by normal fertilization
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