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Scilla [17]
4 years ago
6

Why is it important that sex cells have half the number of chromosomes as body cells?

Biology
1 answer:
enot [183]4 years ago
3 0
When the sperm and the egg comes together they equal to 46 chromosomes. If the sperm and the egg had less or more than 23 chromosomes the baby would be abnormal/deformed
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