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What is the total number of chromosomes present in this cell before mitosis?

What is the total number of chromosomes present in this cell before mitosis?-example-1
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The number of chromosomes is reduced from 46 (23 pairs) to 23 during the process of meiosis. Because they have only half the total chromosomes in a somatic cell, they are termed haploid.

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