Genes

Genetics is the study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics. In humans, we have the diploid number of chromosomes. Naturally, we inherited half our chromosomes from our mother and half from our father. If the diploid number in humans is 46, then the haploid number is 23. Gametes have the haploid number. Some organisms possess even more multiples of the haploid number. The grass carp, which people successfully use to control aquatic plant growth, since that is what it eats, is an organism with the triploid number of chromosomes. One more example of Euploidy, which is defined as multiples of haploid, is tetrapod. Every day, scientists learn more about genetics.

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