Genetics: Analysis and Principles 5th Edition by Robert Brooker

Exercise 7

While conducting field studies on a chain of islands, you decide to karyotype two phenotypically identical groups of turtles, which are found on different islands. The turtles on one island have 24 chromosomes, but those on another island have 48 chromosomes. How would you explain this observation How do you think the turtles with 48 chromosomes came into being If you mated the two types of turtles together, would you expect their offspring to be phenotypically normal Would you expect them to be fertile Explain.