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Chromosomes contain the DNA of many characteristics that humans may have - gender, hair color, eye color, skin color, etc. Humans have forty-six chromosomes. Chromosomes are often paired together - humans have twenty-three chromosome pairs. 46; 23 from each of my parents. ---- Humans have 22 pairs of somatic chromosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes, for a total of 23 pairs. Female have two X sex chromosomes and males have one X and one Y sex chromosome.

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