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The cells of a human male have which composition for their sex chromosomes?
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A normal male will have one X and one Y chromosome.
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What sex chromosomes does a female have in all her cells?
A female human has two X sex chromosomes in her cells. A male human has one X and one Y sex chromosome in his cells.
Human body cells have 23 pairs of?
Chromosomes (autosomes), not including the sex chromosomes (XY - male, or XX - female).
How many chromosomes does a human inherit from each parent?
Human Cells have 42 chromosomes Human Sex cells such as womans eggs and male sperm contains 21
How many chromosomes does each the male and female reproductive cell contain?
Human cells contain 23 pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46.
When do chromosomes duplicate in a cells life?
When there joined with a male chromosomes and a female chromosomes
How many chromosomes are present in human sex cells?
The human sex cell or human gamete has half the number of cells that any other normal human cell would have. A normal human cell (the one from your skin, mouth, lung, liver, sex organs, etc.) has 23 pairs of chromosomes and as such are called diploid cells. The sex cells are haploid having only 23 number of chromosomes as they unite with another haploid cell to create a normal cell with complete set of 23 pairs of chromosomes. The 23rd chromosome on a male human gamete is either the X or the Y chromosome while on the female gamete it is always the X chromosome.
What is the 23rd pair of chromosomes that differ in males and females called?
The 22 pairs of chromosomes in human somatic cells that are same in males and females are called autosomes.
What kind of chromosomes do the body cells of humans have?
All Human Body Cells, also called somatic cells, have 46 chromosomes. These 46 occur is 23 pair. The first 22 pair are called autosomes. The 23rd pair are the sex chromosomes, xx for female, xy for male.
How many chromosomes are in a human cell?
Body cells have "pairs" of chromosomes while sex cells have only single sets of chromosomes. The human body cells have 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes for a total of 23 pairs or 46 chromosomes.But sex cells (sperm or ovum, known as gametes or diploid cells) contain only 23 chromosomes (unpaired), when they meet (forming a Zygote), the 23 from each male and female gamete form a cell containing 46 chromosomes to make a Haploid cell.Normal body cells (known as a haploid cells) contain 46 chromosomes (or 23 pairs of chromosomes).There are genetic diseases/disorders such as Down's syndrome that occasionally have one more.Normally, 46. Unless aneuploidy occurs.46 Chromosomes in human body
How is the equal genetic contribution of male and female parents ensured in the progeny?
Human cells have 46 chromosomes, except gametes (eggs and sperm), which have 23. A human offspring has 23 chromosomes from the father and 23 from the mother.
How many sex chromosomes does a sperm carry?
Each parent donates 23 chromosomes to fertilization process however only the male can determin the sex.
How does number of chromosomes in a human body cell compare with the number of chromosomes in a human reproductive cell?
In the human body there are 23 pairs of chromosomes (46 in total); in reproductive cells there are only one half of the pair (or 23 in total). During fertilization the 23 from the male sperm cell fuse with the 23 from the female ovule and recombine as two pairs of 23 chromosomes (46 again in total). Normal human cells are diploid (2n), while sex cells are haploid (n)
