A diploid pollen mother cell undergoes meiosis to form a tetrad of four microspores. What is the ploidy of each cell in the tetrad?
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Ploidy of a microspore tetrad
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Each microspore is haploid, n. Meiosis reduces the chromosome number from the diploid mother cell to one chromosome set in each microspore; four cells do not mean that each cell is tetraploid.