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Some plants are triploid. if a plant has a haploid chromosome number of 42, how many chromosomes would be present in a triploid plant's somatic cells

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in a triploid plant there will be three copies of each chromosome. in given condition the chromosome number is 42. so the total number of chromosome will be 3*42 =126 .ie.,three copies of each chromosome.
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