Editing Cannabis (section)

=== Genetics ===
''Cannabis'', like many organisms, is [[Ploidy|diploid]], having a [[chromosome]] complement of 2n=20, although [[polyploid]] individuals have been artificially produced.<ref name="small1972a">{{cite journal|doi=10.1139/b72-248|title=Interfertility and chromosomal uniformity in ''Cannabis''|year=1972| vauthors = Small E |journal=Canadian Journal of Botany|volume=50|issue=9|pages=1947–9|bibcode=1972CaJB...50.1947S }}</ref> The first genome sequence of ''Cannabis'', which is estimated to be 820 [[Megabase|Mb]] in size, was published in 2011 by a team of Canadian scientists.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = van Bakel H, Stout JM, Cote AG, Tallon CM, Sharpe AG, Hughes TR, Page JE | title = The draft genome and transcriptome of Cannabis sativa | journal = Genome Biology | volume = 12 | issue = 10 | pages = R102 | date = October 2011 | pmid = 22014239 | pmc = 3359589 | doi = 10.1186/gb-2011-12-10-r102 | doi-access = free }}</ref>