MadSci Network: Cell Biology
Query:

Re: whats the greates level of polyploidy observed in any organism

Date: Wed May 23 12:23:46 2001
Posted By: Cynthia Galloway, Faculty Biology
Area of science: Cell Biology
ID: 989365729.Cb
Message:

Most of the information I was able to find listed sugarcane as 8n. Some helpful weblinks are listed below along with a link for the organism with the greatest 2n number.

htt p://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/P/Polyploidy.html
http://botany.about.com/science/botany/library/ weekly/aa032598.htm?iam=dpile&terms=%2Bpolyploidy
http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/genetics/medgen/basics/ minmax_chromos.html


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