Somatic Set of Chromosomes

Somatic set of chromosomes

The somatic set of chromosomes is the set that contains all the genes and chromosomes of an organism, including those received from the parents. Unlike the haploid set of chromosomes, which contains half the number of chromosomes of the diploid (2n), the somatic set is 4n for haploid organisms and 2N for diploid ones. Thus, the number of chromosomes can be doubled or reduced in the somatic set of chromosomes relative to the haploid one. Somatic cells of an organism may contain different sets of chromosomes, such as haploid,