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Which of the following does not accurately describes a typical human karyotype?

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2 sex chromosomes and 44 autosomal chromosomes is wrong because he human karyotype includes 22 pair of autosomal chromosomes and only 1 pair of sex chromosomes.
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The right answer is 22 pairs of sex chromosomes and 1 pair of autosomal chromosomes are pictured.

Each human somatic cell has 22 pairs of homologous chromosomes (also called autosomes), numbered from 1 to 22, and a pair of sex chromosomes (also called heterochromosomes or gonosomes), for a total of 23 pairs (in the title, numbers were reversed).

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