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Identify an example of a species that has been formed by polyploidy

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Polyploidy is less common in animals, but some fish, reptiles, and one mammal, the red vizcacha rat, are polyploidy. Polyploidy changes the genome of the new organism so much that it might no longer be able to mate with the original species, resulting in speciation, or the creation of two species from one

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