Q. Triticum vulgare has been found to be presently evolved as
A) Diploid
B) Tetraploid
C) Pentaploid
D) Hexaploid
Explanation
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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