You are studying meiosis in fungi with an organism in which the haploid chromosome number is 5 (n = 5).You combine two haploid cells together (strain 1 by strain 2),and then activate meiosis to regenerate haploid cells.What are the odds that any individual haploid cell will have either the five chromosomes from strain 1 or the five chromosomes from strain 2?

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During meiosis, homologous chromosomes pair up and exchange genetic information. This means that the resulting haploid cells will have a combination of chromosomes from both initial haploid cells (strain 1 and strain 2). The number of possible combinations is 2^n, where n is the haploid chromosome number. In this case, 2^5 = 32 possible combinations. Therefore, the odds of a haploid cell having either the five chromosomes from strain 1 or the five chromosomes from strain 2 is 1/16 (since there are 2 possible combinations that would result in either of these scenarios out of a total of 32 possible combinations).

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