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Autopolyploidy is known as

A. Hybrid polyploidy

B. Simple polyploidy

C. Segmental polyploidy

D. All of these

Answer: Option B

Solution(By Examveda Team)

Autopolyploidy is known as Simple polyploidy.
Polyploidy is a mutation in which offspring have a multiple of some ancestral set of chromosomes. Polyploidy can occur either within a species (autopolyploidy) or between different species.
An individual or strain whose chromosome complement consists of more than two complete copies of the genome of a single ancestral species.

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