Once I tried to learn this stuff by asking a biochemist, but I soon became frustrated because it seems there are no 100% rules, only "it is usually like this" all the way down.
Like, did they teach you at school that eukaryotes have two sets of chromozomes, one from each parent? Yeah, "usually". But then also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploidy
Once I tried to learn this stuff by asking a biochemist, but I soon became frustrated because it seems there are no 100% rules, only "it is usually like this" all the way down.
Like, did they teach you at school that eukaryotes have two sets of chromozomes, one from each parent? Yeah, "usually". But then also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyploidy
And similarly with everything.