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Modern data on the origin and biological significance of B chromosomes in plants and animals, their structure and evolution, and dynamics and polymorphism are considered. Some examples of various animal and plant species show a possible role of population variability in the number and morphological types of B chromosomes.

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The work was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 16-04-01185/17.

The authors are grateful to V.A. Kunakh for the part of the results of his work previously published in the Bulletin of the Ukrainian Association of Geneticists and Breeders (Kunakh, 2010).

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Borisov, Y.M., Myshliavkina, T.A. B Chromosomes. Biol Bull Rev 9, 105–118 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079086419020038

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