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Humans are diploid and have 46 chromosomes (or two sets). How many sets of chromosomes are found in each human gamete?- 1- 2- 3- 4- 5

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Human gamete is haploid i.e. it contains 23 chromosomes or single set of chromosomes

A cell of an organism is said to be haploid if it only has one pair of chromosomes. All creatures that reproduce sexually are diploid (having two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent). Only the egg and sperm cells are haploid in humans .A haploid cell only contains one pair of chromosomes. Human cells are typically diploid (two copies of each chromosome) as opposed to haploid (one copy of each chromosome). Meiosis, a specific type of cell division where the genetic material of the parent cell is broken up twice, is how the egg and sperm cells are created in humans. As a result, these haploid cells have just one pair of chromosomes. The genetic material is united in the zygote cell that results from sperm fertilizing an egg. In other words, two distinct haploid cells with one set of chromosomes each combine to form a single diploid cell with two sets of chromosomes. In the end, the zygote cell develops into a new individual.

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