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There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in the cell, or 46 total. 1 pair of them are sex chromosomes and the rest are called autosomes. There are 50-75 trillion cells in the human body. That means there are about 1,550,000,000,000,000- 1,725,000,000,000,000 pairs of chromosomes in the human body.

The sex chromosomes in human, denoted X and Y, are only truly a pair in females (XX). So some people consider humans to all have 22 pairs chromosomes and 2 sex chromosomes.

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