How many chromosomes are there in the germ cells of the fruit fly Drosophila, if its somatic cells contain 8 chromosomes?
| December 7, 2020 | education
Sex cells have a haploid set of chromosomes, while somatic cells have a diploid set.
In this task, we are given a somatic cell and we need to find out how many chromosomes are in the germ cell.
We just divide 8 by 2 and get 4 chromosomes.
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