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Wild Oysters Are Diploid and Have 20 Chromosomes in Somatic

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Wild oysters are diploid and have 20 chromosomes in somatic cells. Scientists have generated tetraploid oysters using colchicine to prevent separation of sister chromatids. Crossing a diploid oyster with a tetraploid oyster resulted in triploid oysters that are commercially advantageous because they are larger and do not have a reproductive phase that usually interrupts the harvesting season.
-What is x in wild oysters?


A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
D) 40

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