INTRODUCTION TO MICROSCOPY CELL BIOLOGY
DIFFERENTIATED CELL
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Question
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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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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: -Your genome is inherited from your parents, half from your mother and half from your father. The gametes are formed during a process called meiosis. Like your genome, each gamete is unique, which explains why siblings from the same parents do not look the same.
Detailed explanation-3: -Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, or 46 total. We each inherit a full set of 23 from our mother and another full set from our father. Twenty-two of those chromosome pairs are, for our purposes, identical; the one we get from mom is the same size and composition as the one we get from dad.