An animal, a Spoffalopomous, has 16 pairs of chromosomes in a normal body cell. The eggs and sperm of the Spoffalopomous will have .....

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An animal, a Spoffalopomous, has 16 pairs of chromosomes in a normal body cell. The eggs and sperm of the Spoffalopomous will have ____

A	16 chromosomes
B	8 chromosomes
C	16 pairs of chromosomes
D	32 chromosomes

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -This division is an important event since after fertilisation haploid chromosomes from each gamete (male and female) fuse to retain the diploid state in the zygote. Diploid means two sets of chromosome and haploid is one set. Since here the diploid set is 16 thus one set will be half it, i.e, 8.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: The correct answer is (c) 32. Sperm are haploid, meaning that they have one copy of each chromosome rather than two. Germ cells are specialized cells that undergo mitosis to generate sperm and eggs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Egg and sperm cells have just 23 chromosomes each. That’s half as many chromosomes as regular cells. Through the process of fertilization, egg and sperm join to make a cell with 46 chromosomes (23 pairs), called a zygote. For each chromosome pair, one homologous chromosome came from each parent.

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