OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
GENETICS
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Question
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You inherited ____
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most of your chromosomes from your mother
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most of your chromosomes from your father
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a random number of chromosomes from each parent
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half your chromosomes from your mother and half from your father.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -People usually have two copies of each chromosome. One copy is inherited from their mother (via the egg) and the other from their father (via the sperm). A sperm and an egg each contain one set of 23 chromosomes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Humans have a total of 46 chromosomes which are located in the center of every cell of the body. We receive 23 chromosomes (half our genetic information) from our mothers and 23 chromosomes from our fathers.
Detailed explanation-3: -You receive 50% of your genes from each of your parents, but the percentages of DNA you received from ancestors at the grandparent level and further back are not necessarily neatly divided in two with each generation.
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