In the tobacco plant, the male gametes have twenty-four chromosomes. What is the number of chromosomes in the female gamete? What is the number of chromosomes in the zygote?
In the tobacco plant, the male gametes have twenty-four chromosomes. What is the number of chromosomes in the female gamete? What is the number of chromosomes in the zygote?

Soln:

Since the number of chromosomes in both gametes is the same, the number of chromosomes in a female tobacco plant gamete is 24. So, in a zygote, the total number of chromosomes is 48.