A daughter cell with only 23 chromosomes is called a haploid cell; these are the gametes (sex cells) which are produced during meiosis (note: this is not the same as mitosis). When a sperm & an ovum fuse at conception, the result is a single cell called a zygote, which now has 46 chromosomes - and is therefore a diploid cell.
First of all, who are the "parents"? Are they humans? Or another organism? If they are humans, sperm and egg cells have half the amount of chromosomes as the original cell. Also, sperm and egg cells are haploids, and are only 2 out of the 46 chromosomes a human would have. The other 44 are autosomes.
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The average human has 46 chromosomes which come directly from his or her parents. Therefore, one half (23 chromosomes) of his or her chromosomes comes from the mother, and the other half comes from the father. This is why the egg and sperm cell only carry 23 chromosomes each: because, when they merge together, the two groups of chromosomes are combined to form the fertilized egg, which will become a new individual.
In typical autosomal (body) cells, there are 46 chromosomes (23 paired chromosomes). In egg and sperm cells, there are only 23 because each is unpaired; being sex cells, they will only require one set of chromosomes to fertilize or be fertilize and produce a healthy mature cell with 46 chromosomes (23 from egg, 23 from sperm).
The daughter cells will have 46 chromosomes after meiosis I and 23 after meiosis II.
During Meiosis I, a germline cell doubles its DNA, so it would go from 46 to 92 chromosomes. When the cell divides, the daughter cells would have 46 chromosomes. In Meiosis II, the DNA does not replicate, so when these cells divide, the daughter cells only have 23 chromosomes.
Meiosis is also know as reduction division. The usual cell in the human body contains 46 chromosomes. In the production of gametes (sperm cells or egg cells), thee number of chromosomes is reduced to half. Conveniently, that half contains one of each type chromosome; therefore, when one gamete combines with another, called fertilization, the resulting cell again has 46 chromosomes.
So when they form a zygote that zygote has the full compliment of 46 chromosomes.
haploid - they contain a single set of unpaired chromosomes
No. These cells contain only half the number of chromosomes as the other cells of the body. Each egg and sperm cell contain only 23 chromosomes.
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A sex cell contains half the number of chromosomes found in a somatic (normal) cell. Therefore a human sex cell would contain 23 chromosomes.
A sperm cell and an egg cell. They combine to make a baby with full chromosomes.
The sperm cell contains 23 chromosomes.
haploid - they contain a single set of unpaired chromosomes
No. These cells contain only half the number of chromosomes as the other cells of the body. Each egg and sperm cell contain only 23 chromosomes.
The human sperm cell has 23 chromosomes. White blood cells have 46 chromosomes. Mature red blood cells to not contain a nucleus, and therefore has no chromosomes. Platelets are cell fragments and also do not contain nuclei.
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The human egg or sperm cell is haploid and contains 23 chromosomes. After fertilization (egg and sperm fusion), the zygote will have 46 chromosomes (23 pairs).
There is no such thing as a 'cell' in a 'cell'.There are Chromosomes in a cell. There are 46 chromosomes in 1 cell.If you have a baby the sperm cell will only contain 23 chromosomes because you are making another human, when the child is grown up the sperm cell will go back to 46 chromosomes.
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Like all other cell types, chromosomes are found in nucleus only(head of the sperm). But the human sperm cell is haploid, so that its 23 chromosomes can join the 23 chromosomes of the female egg to form a diploid cell during fertilization.
The diploid chromosome number for the orangutan is 48 (two more than man), so an orangutan sperm cell would contain 24 chromosomes.
A sex cell contains half the number of chromosomes found in a somatic (normal) cell. Therefore a human sex cell would contain 23 chromosomes.