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Q.Number of chromosome found in gametes of garden pea plant :

(a) 7
(b) 12
(c) 5
(d) 23
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Garden pea gametes carry 7 chromosomes, half the somatic count of 14.

Pisum sativum, the species Gregor Mendel used to establish the laws of inheritance, has a diploid chromosome number of 2n = 14 in its somatic (body) cells. During meiosis in the reproductive organs, homologous chromosome pairs separate so that each resulting gamete (pollen or egg cell) receives exactly one chromosome from each of the 7 homologous pairs, giving a haploid gamete count of n = 7. When a pollen gamete (n=7) fuses with an egg gamete (n=7) at fertilisation, the resulting zygote is restored to the diploid number, 2n = 14, maintaining chromosome num …

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