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How many chromosomes are found in the nucleus of a mature germ cell?

forty-six
twenty-three

ninety-two

zero

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User Eleazar
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Answer:

23 chromosomes

Step-by-step explanation:

Cells, germ: The eggs and sperm are the germ cells: the reproductive cells. Each mature germ cell is haploid in that it has a single set of 23 chromosomes containing half the usual amount of DNA and half the usual number of genes.

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