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An organism has 2 chromosomes in its cells (the diploid number is 2). Calculate the number of chromosomes in a cell in the 5th generation if egg and sperm cells were diploid

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Answer:

64

Explanation:

Since the cell has two chromosomes and a diploid number of 2, in each generation, the cell doubles. In the first generation, we have two cells, in the second generation, we have 2 × 2 cells ,in the third generation, we have 2 × 2 × 2 cells. It follows that we have 2ⁿ cells in each generation where n represents the generation.

So, in the fifth generation, n = 5, so the number of cells is 2⁵ =  32.

Since we have 2 chromosomes in each cell, the number of chromosomes in the 32 cells in the 5th generation is 2 × 32 = 64 chromosomes.

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