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In 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?

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Male and female gametes of a species have same number of chromosomes. Hence, number of chromosome in the female gamete of tobacco plants is 24. Zygote is formed by fusion of male and female gamete, it will have 48 chromosomes.
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