The vegetable we know as the potato resulted from naturally occurring genome doubling within one species.In other words, the potato has twice as many chromosomes as the ancestor it was derived from.The potato could therefore be described as being the result of the process known as

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Autopolyploidy refers to the doubling of the chromosome number in an organism due to events within the same species, leading to individuals with multiple sets of chromosomes from the same species. This is what happened in the case of the potato.

The Vegetable We Know as the Potato Resulted from Naturally