What would happen to the chromosome number in a fertilized egg if meiosis did not occur?

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Dr Birendra Kumar Mishra
Nov 24, 2016

Haploid zygote will be formed.

Explanation:

  1. If fertized egg is formed without meiosis, the resultant zygote will be triploid.
  2. The tripoid organisms will never be fertile, because of absence of homologous pairing during the gamete formation.
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