Biology · Plant Anatomy
Consider a diploid plant species where the cells in the epidermis (the outermost single cell layer) always divide in the anticlinal orientation. If one such cell within the central zone of the shoot apical meristem (SAM) spontaneously becomes tetraploid at the seedling stage, which one of the following cellular arrangements would be most likely observed if the meristem is examined at the adult stage?
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- 1Only one tetraploid cell in the epidermis
- 2Many tetraploid cells in the epidermis✓
- 3All cells in the entire SAM tetraploid
- 4All cells in the entire SAM diploid
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Many tetraploid cells in the epidermis
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