Proximal chromosome counts

Do phylogenetically proximal species include cells with proximal chromosome counts?

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The number of chromosomes usual of each species is proximal for phylogenetically proximal species (for illustration, gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee and human). However it is not unfeasible that evolutionary distant species, such as oat and rat, bears identical karyotypes and similar total number of chromosomes.

Even presenting equivalent number of chromosomes evolutionary distant species contain radically distinct characteristics as the quantity and the series of nucleotides which compose their relevant DNA molecules are quite distinct.   

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