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If an organism diploid 8 chromosomes how many chromosome do it haploid cell contain

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The easiest way to distinguish haploid and dipload cell is to remember that the prefix 'di-' means two or double.

If a diploid cell has 8 chromosomes than the haploid cell (which must contain half of the diploid chromosome number) will contain 4
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