If You Compare a Sperm Cell in a Human to a Skin

question 31

Multiple Choice

If you compare a sperm cell in a human to a skin cell from the same individual,which of the following differences would you expect to find?

• A)The sperm cell would contain four alleles for a given gene;the skin cell would contain two alleles.
• B)The sperm cell would contain only one allele for a given gene;the skin cell would contain two alleles.
• C)Both sperm and skin cells may carry different alleles for an individual gene.
• D)Both sperm and skin cells would contain 46 chromosomes found as homologous pairs.

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