time for antposting 🐜

Edited the title to make the joke more clear

  • Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    n identifies if the particular stage is haploid or diploid (has one or two copies of chromosomes).

    Forgotten what n? signifies exactly, I want to say it’s a mixed stage? It’s been ages since I studied Marine Biology.

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      6 hours ago

      n is the ploidy. In animals I think it’s pretty consistent. Far from the case once you get to the actually interesting branches of the tree of life.

    • TotallynotJessicaOPM
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      15 hours ago

      that makes more sense. I’m not a marine biologist, so I was just going off of my basic understanding. like I said, diagrams like these are often needlessly complicated to understand