An egg carries half the chromosomes and the sperm carries the oter half.
23 chromosomes
23 chromosomes in a human egg are from the father, and 23 are from the mother.
A fertilized egg, or zygote, typically has 46 chromosomes. This is a result of the coming together of the egg (23 chromosomes) from the mother and the sperm (23 chromosomes) from the father during fertilization.
There are 23 chromosomes in each the sperm and the egg. When they fuse, the resulting embryo will have 46 chromosomes.
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56 chromosomes in a regular octopus
23 chromosomes
There are 23 chromosomes from the egg and 23 chromosomes from the sperm making it 46 in total when they both fuse together.
Twenty-three chromosomes are in a cell that is formed from a sperm and egg cell.
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