If referring to Mules, they have 63 chromosomes. They receive 32 chromosomes from the horse and 31 from the donkey, resulting in infertility due to the uneven number of chromosome pairs.
There's no good reason for it; the number of chromosomes an animal has doesn't really have much to do with anything.
The fern plant Ophioglossum reticulatum (netted adder's-tongue) has 630 or 631 pairs of chromosomes. Ophioglossum plants have more chromosomes than any other known living organism.
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An emperor penguin has 92 chromosomes in each cell, which is a much higher number compared to humans that have 46 chromosomes. These chromosomes store genetic information and are crucial for biological processes.
Biologists use dividing cells to determine the number of chromosomes in an organism because chromosomes are most visible and distinct during cell division. By observing dividing cells under a microscope, biologists can count the number of chromosomes present, which provides information about the genetic makeup of the organism.
The answer is more complicated than chromosome number. Offspring of a cross between Przewalski's horse (66 chromosomes) and the domestic horse (64 chromosomes) are trisomic (2n+1) just like mules, mollies and hinnys, yet they are not sterile. The problem is that while horses and donkeys share much of the same genetic information, it is structured differently. Testicular meiosis is arrested in Mules and hinny stallions at the primary spermatocyte stage because of incompatibility of synaptal pairing between paternal and maternal chromosomes.
Farm animals typically have a varying number of chromosomes. For example, cows have 60 chromosomes, pigs have 38, sheep have 54, and chickens have 78. Each species has its own unique chromosome count.
Regardless of gender, cattle have 60 chromosomes.
Rye (Secale cereale) has 14 chromosomes.
Genetic variation is expressed in genes which form chromosomes. Thus any individual in a population of breeding animals can only 'hold' the gene variations that can fit into that individuals chromosomes, while the number of chromosomes in the population is the number found in the individual * the number of individuals comprising the population, a much greater space for 'holding' variations in genes.
A normal, healthy Human will have 46 chromosomes; 23 from the mother, and 23 from the father. Various diseases can increase this number however due to the chromosomes replicating too much
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