Turkeys have 40 pairs of chromosomes. How many chromosomes would you expect to find in a turkey egg cell?(1 point) Responses 20 20 telophase 160 telophase 160 40 40 80
The correct answer is 40. A turkey egg cell would have the same number of chromosomes as any other somatic cell in the turkey, which is 40 pairs.
To determine the number of chromosomes in a turkey egg cell, you need to consider the process of meiosis. Meiosis is the type of cell division that produces gametes (egg and sperm cells) with half the number of chromosomes as compared to the parent cell.
Since turkeys have 40 pairs of chromosomes, it means they have a total of 40 x 2 = 80 chromosomes in their body cells (somatic cells). However, egg and sperm cells are produced through a special division called meiosis, where the chromosome number is halved.
During meiosis, the number of chromosomes is reduced from diploid (2n) to haploid (n). In the case of turkeys, the haploid number of chromosomes would be half the diploid number, so it would be 80 / 2 = 40 chromosomes.
Therefore, the expected number of chromosomes in a turkey egg cell is 40.
To determine the number of chromosomes in a turkey egg cell, we divide the number of chromosomes in the turkey (40 pairs) by 2, since egg cells are haploid.
So, the number of chromosomes in a turkey egg cell would be 40 pairs / 2 = 20 chromosomes.
Therefore, the correct answer is 20.