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Title: Suppose you find a cell that contains 15 chromosomes. Is this cell a gamete or a body cell? Post by: irina on Sep 23, 2012 Explain. Please and thank you:) Your help is much appreciated.
Title: Suppose you find a cell that contains 15 chromosomes. Is this cell a gamete or a body cell? Post by: microbeman on Sep 23, 2012 gamate - body cells have an EVEN number of choromomes.
They come in pairs - the gamete represents the number of pairs in this case 15. S Title: Suppose you find a cell that contains 15 chromosomes. Is this cell a gamete or a body cell? Post by: microdavid on Sep 23, 2012 You need to know the normal number of chromosomes in that organism. Humans usually have 46 chromosomes. However, gametes (eggs or sperm) are made by meiosis (reduction division), so they have only half the regular number, and in humans would have 23.
Title: Suppose you find a cell that contains 15 chromosomes. Is this cell a gamete or a body cell? Post by: rks23456 on Sep 23, 2012 A gamete.
Somatic body cells are normally diploid (2n, in pairs). 15 is not in pairs. Possibly it could be a diploid body cell with trisomy (1 extra and normal diploid = 14) or with monosomy (1 missing and normal diploid = 16). Title: Suppose you find a cell that contains 15 chromosomes. Is this cell a gamete or a body cell? Post by: fire_crystal on Sep 23, 2012 given that you said 15 CHROMOSOMES and not 15 chromosome PAIRS, it's a gamete...
Title: Re: Suppose you find a cell that contains 15 chromosomes. Is this cell a gamete or a body cell? Post by: lkalkhoran on Oct 14, 2012 This would be a gamete. A gamete has half as many chromosomes as a regular cell, regular cells are usually even numbered, because they occur in pairs. 15 chromosomes would be a gamete because of this.
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