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Triticum vulgare has been found to be presently evolved as

  • diploid

  • tetraploid

  • pentaploid

  • hexaploid

Answer

D.

hexaploid

The common bread wheat (Triticum aestivum = T. vulgare) is an allohexaploid. It has two copies of each of the genomes A, B and D. Its somatic complement is represented as AA BB DD.

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