What is the possible reason that secondaries arise from parents that have unpaired chromosomes but not from parents that are normal diploids? Map Genetics: A Conceptual Approach 6th Edition Pierce MHE/Freeman presented by Sapling Learning Progeny of triploid tomato plants often contain parts of an extra chromosome, in addition to the normal complement of 24 chromosomes. Mutants with a part of an extra chromosome are referred to as secondaries. James and Margaret Lesley observed that secondaries arise from triploid (3n), trisomic (3n 1), and double trisomic (3n 1 1) parents, but never from diploids (2n). (J. W. Lesley and M. M. Lesley. 1929. Genetics 14:321-336) What is a possible reason that secondaries arise from parents that have unpaired chromosomes but not from parents that are normal diploids? Triploid and trisomic conditions in tomato plants are unnatural, and this genomic imbalance leads to higher levels of mitotic recombination. The trivalent chromosomes would still be able to associate through chiasma prior to segregation during meiosis. Due to some unknown mechanism, triploid and trisom c tomato plants O occasionally over-replicate part of a chromosome, which leads to the generation of mutant tomato plants. Triploid and trisomic plants are vulnerable to infection by the tomato mosaic O virus, so they acquire extra chromosomal material by the integration of viral DNA, whereas diploid plants are not infected by the virus. Solution Ans: B 2n+1 condition is called trisomic in which an organism contains two complete genome + 1 extra chromosome. During the process of meiosis 1 chromosomal page separate so that 1 members of each state is distributed to one daughter nucleus and other members goes to other daughter nucleus but rarely one pair of chromosomes fail to separate and moves to the pole giving half of the daughter cells extra chromosome and remaining half lost one chromosome. As a result n - 1 and n+ 1 chromosomes appear. When the gamut with n+ 1 chromosome fuses with normal gamut the resulting zygote will have 2n + 1 chromosomes producing trisomics organism. It was found that trisomies or white study nature and studied in plants like tomatoes tobacco wheat datura and so on..