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Joel is comparing two slides showing chromosomes in a sperm cell and a skin cell of a dog. He finds that the sperm cell has 39 chromosomes.How many chromosomes can he expect in the skin cell?

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78 chromosomes because sperm is haploid but skin cell is diploid so have twice number
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