User talk:Patrick E O'Neill

In some species (especially plants), the monoploid number and haploid number are NOT the same! Commercial rye wheat is tetraploid, with four copies of chromosomes in each cell. The gametes are haploid and contain half the genetic information of other cells, but are NOT monoploid as they still contain two complete sets (n = 2x).

Do you have a good citation that could be used for this information in the ploidy article ? usigned previously by David D. (Talk)

Griffiths, Anthony JF, Jeffrey H Miller, David T Suzuki, Richard C Lewontin, and William M Gelbart. An Introduction to Genetic Analysis, Seventh Edition. WH Freeman and Company, New York. 2000. p556

This is the genetics textbook I teach from. It is stated very plainly when haploid and monoploid topics are introduced. The common misconception previously represented on Wikipedia seems to be a bit of an epidemic; plaguing the web in many places like "freebiologydictionary.com" etc. I imagine the correct data is available simply and unambiguously via hardcopy resources.
 * Actually, i was not questioning the edit. Just thinking it would be good to have a source. When misconceptions are strong it is good to be able to say look here for the correct information. David D. (Talk) 19:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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