REPRODUCTION
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
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23
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24
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46
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48
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Detailed explanation-1: -Each of the eggs and sperm in the chimpanzee contains 24 chromosomes, and when fertilization occurs, the chromosomes unite to make a single cell with 48 chromosomes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Humans have 46 chromosomes, whereas chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan have 48.
Detailed explanation-3: -The gametes of human cells are haploid, from the Greek haplos, meaning “single.” This term implies that each gamete contains half of the 46 chromosomes-23 chromosomes in humans.
Detailed explanation-4: -In humans, each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46. Twenty-two of these pairs, called autosomes, look the same in both males and females. The 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, differ between males and females.
Detailed explanation-5: -The common potato Solanum tuberosum L. has 48 chromosomes per somatic cell (2n=4x=48), so that the number of chromosomes in the egg cell and in haploid somatic cells is 24. Haploids of S.