When Comparing a Human Sperm Cell to a Skin Cell

question 24

Multiple Choice

When comparing a human sperm cell to a skin cell from the same individual,what differences would be expected?

• 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.