In real life how many chromosomes does a human have?

Question

In real life how many chromosomes does a human have?

Answer 1

46 chomosomes :

Women have 23 pairs (22 pairs plus XX pair)

Men have 22 pairs + X + Y

Answer 2

I believe that is it 23

Answer 3

Human chromosone number is 24.

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Answer 4

In real life i'd say 23,  but my imaginary friend has way more.

Answer 5

In real life a human has 46 chromosomes,they get 23 of them from their mom and 23 of them from their dad.

Answer 6

twenty three pairs of two, so forty six in each cell, but down syndrome is caused when there are forty seven chromosomes  and there are other disorders (i don't know which) caused with too few chromosomes. but the average healthy human has forty six in twenty three pairs.

Answer 7

46

Answer 8

48

Answer 9

23

Answer 10

Here is the formula for figuring it out.

Number of Cells in the Body = C

C is a variable number probably in the high billions

Number of Chromosomes in a Cell = 46

C x 46 = total number of chromosomes in the human body.

Answer 11

There are approximately 234 billion cells in every body. There is 1 chromosome in every cell. Is the answer not apparent?

Answer 12

The OFFICIAL ANSWER is:

The typical number of chromosomes in a human cell is 46 - two pairs of 23.

Answer 13

Chromosomes are compact spools of DNA. If you were to stretch out all the DNA from one of your cells, it would be over 3 feet (1 meter) long from end to end! You can think of chromosomes as "DNA packages" that enable all this DNA to fit in the nucleus of each cell. Normally, we have 46 of these packages in each cell; we received 23 from our mother and 23 from our father.

Answer 14

it's 23 pairs.

Answer 15

Diploid number of chromosomes for:

  Homo sapiens (human)46  =23 pair