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If a koala bear has sixteen pairs of chromosomes, what are the possible

combinations of genes that will be represented?

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All vombatid species have 2n = 14 chromosomes; the koala has 2n = 16, which G-banding studies suggest is derivable from a wombat-like karyotype by means of a simple centric fission in the equivalent of the submetacentric wombat second autosomal element

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