Final answer:
Each daughter cell will have 24 chromosomes after the completion of meiosis II if the parent cell initially had 48 chromosomes.
Step-by-step explanation:
If a parent cell has 48 chromosomes, at the end of meiosis II, each daughter cell would have 24 chromosomes. Meiosis consists of two rounds of cell division that result in four haploid daughter cells, each with half the number of chromosomes as the original parent cell. Since the parent cell starts with 48 chromosomes, these are halved after the first division (meiosis I), and the second division (meiosis II) does not change the number of chromosomes, so each of the four resulting daughter cells will have 24 chromosomes.
During meiosis II, each daughter cell will have 23 chromosomes. This is because meiosis results in the formation of four haploid cells, each containing half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell. In humans, the parent cell has 46 chromosomes (23 pairs), so each daughter cell will have 23 chromosomes.