The theory of evolution is a shortened form of the term “theory of evolution by natural selection,” which was proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the nineteenth century
Hmmm i think its the third one because men only have 1 x chromosome therefore without the other one if the x chromosome on a men carries a disorder it will show because there is no other chromosome to balance it out and in women the disorder has to show on both X chronosome (and its rarer) for a disorder to appear therefore women having a second X chromosome is effectively a protection
The new leaf will contain 14 chromosomes, because during mitosis, a cell makes an exact copy of itself. Therefore, the number of the chromosomes in that cell stay the same.