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Lesson: Chapter 6 — The Structure and Function of Plant and Animal Cells

6.5. Cell growth and cell division 6 of 7

Question 6

How does the offspring inherit the two chromosomes of a homologous pair?

The right answer is the one marked above.

One from the mother and the other from the father. So a child inherits 23 from the father and 23 from the mother, making 46.

This is what n + n = 2n means. If both came from one source there would be no reason to speak of a homologous pair at all.

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