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Diploid nuclei of the ascomycete, Neurospora crassa, contain 14 chromosomes. A single diploid cell in an ascus will undergo one round of meiosis, followed in each of the daughter cells by one round of mitosis, producing a total of eight ascospores.
-What is the ploidy of a single mature ascospore?

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Each ascospore is the result of one round of meiosis, which halves the chromosome number from diploid (2n) to haploid (n). Therefore, each ascospore contains one set of 7 chromosomes, making it monoploid (n).

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