kiwi dna

johny_depp_rocks · Post by **johny_depp_rocks** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:50 pm

Ok. So I know that a strawberry has 8 copies of the DNA which means they are called an octoploid. What I want to know is how many copies of DNA does a kiwi have? and what is it called?
thank you very much
p.s. ( my project is due tomarrow)

johny_depp_rocks · Post by **johny_depp_rocks** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 6:08 pm

Hi
I am an 8th grader who has a science fair project due tomorrow. I have already done the experiment (which I got from your website

thank you). But I still need to do most of the paper work. I took the DNA copies out of a strawberry and a kiwi. And in my report I wrote how a strawberry has 8 DNA copies in every cell. I also wrote that when a cell has 8 copies of DNA it is called an octoploid. But I need to know how many copies are in the cell of a kiwi and what it's called.
Thank you soooooooooooo much!!!!!!
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deleted-71417 · Post by **deleted-71417** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 12:15 am

Hi,

This website, which looks credible to me, says kiwi are diploid (two sets of chromosomes).

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/m ... e00596.htm

And this site confirms strawberry is octoploid:

http://www.mpsaz.org/pakupfer/49docs/08 ... -straw.pdf

Hope this helps!

Best regards,

Barrett Tomlinson

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