56 chromosomes in a regular octopus
An octopus egg cell typically contains half the number of chromosomes as a normal octopus cell, which is known as haploid. In most species of octopus, this means the egg cell will contain 17 chromosomes.
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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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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