How Many Chromosomes Are Present In The Original Cell??? Pls. Answer Right Now Because I Really Need This Tommorow.
How many chromosomes are present in the original cell??? pls. answer right now because i really need this tommorow.
Theres no kind of cell specified in your question but lets assume that you are talking about a human cell.
Humans have a complete set of 46 chromosomes. To be specific, there are 22 pairs of somatic chromosomes, while the last pair is composed of sex chromosomes. The last pair can either be an XX pair (for females) and XY (for males). The X chromosome is a large chromosome while the Y is a short chromosome. This difference in chromosome plays a large role in the life of the organism, not only in determining the sex of the organism.
The 46 chromosomes is the diploid (2N) number of chromosomes in a cell. The cells that possess a diploid number include all of the somatic or body cells. The somatic cells retain their diploid number because they undergo mitosis which does not involve the reduction of chromosomes. Only sex cells or gametes possess the haploid(N) number of chromosomes because meiosis reduces the number of chromosomes to be passed onto the daughter cell. This reduction is important for the preservation of the proper number of chromosomes into the succeeding generations of the organisms.
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