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What is half the number of chromosomes?

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Half the number of chromosomes is forty-six.Timmy Galvin

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What half the number of chromosomes?

Half the number of chromosomes is forty-six.Timmy Galvin


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Why do reproductive cells need to have half the normal number of chromosomes?

Humans and other organisms that reproduce sexually need to have half the normal number of chromosomes to make sure their offspring have the same number of chromosomes as they do - the father and mother each contribute half of their chromosomes (sperm and egg).


What are haploid chromosomes?

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Meiosis reduce the number of chromosomes by?

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If a diploid organism has a genome consisting of twenty two chromosomes its gametes will have how many chromosomes?

Gametes have half the number of chromosomes - therefore if the diploid number is 22, the gametes would have 11 chromosomes.


Why must the number of chromosomes in the sperm and egg be half the number of chromosomes in other cells of an organism?

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How number of chromosomes in a cells compare to the number in its sex cells?

The human cell has 46 chromosomes. In the sex cell of a human it has one half that many. So 23 chromosomes from each parent. Different species have different number of chromosomes. This is why you do not have mixes such as a centaur.


Gametes have what kind of Chromosomes?

Gametes have haploid chromosomes, which means they have half the number of chromosomes of other cells in the body.


Process where the number of chromosomes is reduced by half?

Meiosis.


What are the cells that are used for reproduction and that contain half the usual number of chromosomes?

What we call gametes (egg or sperm cells) have half the number of chromosomes.