- Animals or seed plants. Is "animals" too unnerving? I'll say plants.
I think the polyploidy is kept, with multiple near-duplicate chromosomes, but there's a difference between the haploid stage of the life cycle where there are N chromosomes and the diploid stage where there are 2N.
(I'm not an expert on this stuff!)
John Carlos Baez
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