A diploid organism has a somatic chromosome number of 16 The

A diploid organism has a somatic chromosome number of 16. The centromeres of the 8 homologous pairs are designated as Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg and Hh, with uppercase letters referring to the centromeres of maternal chromosomes and lowercase letters to the centromeres of paternal chromosomes. Each centromere represents one chromosome. Where n = the haploid chromosome number. How many different combinations of centromeres could be produced during meiosis?

a.) 8

b.) 64

c.) 256

d.) 512

e.) 6561

Solution

At the meiosis, total number of chromosome is 16.

During the meiosis 1^st spliting of homologous chromosome take place, so each cell has 8 chromosome and centromere.