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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
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Write short notes on polyploidy and autopolyploidy.

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Polyploidy. An organism in which the number of complete chromosome set is higher than the diploid number is called polyploid and phenomenon is termed polyploidy. 

Autopolyploidy. is the condition when there are multiple copies of the basic set of chromosomes  all of which were derived from the same species.

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