Using whole-genome sequencing, how could
you distinguish between autopolyploids and
allopolyploids?
Polyploidy is the condition of presence of more than two sets of homologous chromosomes in a cell. In most of the diploid organisms, one set of chromosomes is obtained from father and another one from mother. Polyploidy is common in some animals while it is induced due to events like non-disjunction during meiotic division in other organisms.
Autopolyploidy is a type of polyploidy in which the extra sets chromosomes are obtained from the same taxon, parents or species whereas in allopolyploidy, the additional sets of chromosomes are obtained from diverged taxon, parents or species.
Whole genome sequencing is a technique of determining the genomic sequence of an organism or the taxa and contrasting the difference between the genome of two organisms.
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