A haploid cell is a cell
A) in which the genes are arranged haphazardly.
B) containing only one copy of each chromosome.
C) that can result only from mitosis.
D) with twice the number of chromosomes of a diploid cell.
E) produced only by binary fission.

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A haploid cell contains only one copy of each chromosome, whereas a diploid cell has two copies (one from each parent). The other choices are incorrect: genes are not arranged haphazardly in a haploid cell (they are still organized on chromosomes), haploid cells can result from meiosis (not just mitosis), and haploid cells do not have twice the number of chromosomes of a diploid cell. Binary fission is a type of cell division found in prokaryotic cells, but it does not exclusively produce haploid cells.

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