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Unlike animals, plants are a lot more varied in the number of chromosomes they can have.

'Anywhere between 2 and at least 12(?)' is a decent starting assumption.

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Cultivated plants have a 2n number of 52, while wild cotton plants have a 2n number of 26. It would seem that polyploidy is the cause of cultivated cotton.

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