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4 as a house fly has 8 chromosomes therefore the sperm would have 4 as they are haploid and do not contain pairs. Gametes (sex cells) always are haploid, so therefore the sperm cell or the egg cell contains half the number of the chromosomes in the rest of the cells.

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