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If an organism's diploid number is 12, what would be its haploid number? 3 6 24 48

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believe it would be 6
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The right answer is 6.

A haploid cell is a cell that contains only one copy of each chromosome.

A diploid cell is a cell that has two homologous representatives of each chromosome.

If a diploid cell of a given species has 12 chromosomes (6 even chromosomes), then its haploid cell necessarily has half and therefore 6 chromosomes.

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