Question

In this exercise, you extracted DNA from your cheek cells. If you could magnify the extracted material, how many individual chromosomes from each of these cheek cells would you expect to see

Answer 1

Answer:

46 chromosomes

Explanation:

Humans are diploid organisms i.e. they contain two sets of chromosomes (each set from each parent). Each set is 23 chromosomes, hence, two sets will be 23 pairs or 46 chromosomes. This means that each somatic/body cell will contain 46 individual chromosomes.

According to this question, DNA was extracted from a cheek cell. If one could magnify the extracted material, there would be 46 individual chromosomes from each of these cheek cells, considering that cheek cell is a somatic cell.