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Thanks everyone!
Claude "James Aldridge" wrote in message ... | As an aside, it's worth mentioning that many flowering plants, perhaps | as many as 50% or so of all species, are polyploid. That is, they | carry more than two copies of each chromosome and therefore more than | two alleles of each gene. | | Polyploidy is often a good thing in that it may confer larger size and | more robustness. It is sought in some orchid breeding by using agents | such as colchicine that inhibit proper chromosome behavior during cell | division. | | Jim |
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