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How many chromosomes are found in a liver cell of a robertsonian translocation carrier?

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In humans, when a Robesonian translocation joins the long arm of chromosome 21 with the long arm of chromosomes 14 or 15, the heterozygous carrier is phenotypically normal because there are two copies of all major chromosome arms and hence two copies of all essential genes

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