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Amanda is curious to know how many chromosomes are in each somatic cell of a chicken she was cooking. She looks it up and finds that it has 78 chromosomes. Therefore, a sperm or an unfertilized egg from a chicken would contain _____ chromosomes

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Answer:

39

Step-by-step explanation:

it would be halved equally between the sperm and the egg so 78÷2 equals 39

this happens through a process known as meiosis

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