Answer to Question #309354 in Genetics for Kitty

Question

If a dog has 39 chromosomes in its sex cell how many chromosomes are in its body cell

Answer 1

The number of chromosomes does not correlate with the apparent complexity of an animal or a plant: in humans, for example, the diploid number is 2n = 46 (that is, 23 pairs), compared with 2n = 78, or 39 pairs, in the dog and 2n = 36 (18) in the common earthworm.