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If a diploid cell is treated with colchi...

If a diploid cell is treated with colchicine, then it becomes

A

Tetraploid

B

Diploid

C

Triploid

D

Monoploid

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A
Colchicine inhibts the cell divison or mitosis, but dulpication of chromosomes is continue, as a result diploid becomes tetraploid.
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