if an organism has a diploid number of 16, how many chromosomes will be found in its skin cells

If the number of chromosome present in the diploid cell is 16, then the number of chromosome present in the haploid cell would be half the number of chromosome present in the diploid cell. This means that the number of chromosomes in the haploid cell would be 8

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adefioyelaoye adefioyelaoye · Answer 2 · 2021-11-16T11:57:40+01:00

An organism having a diploid number of 16 means the number of

chromosomes found in its skin cells will also be 8.

This is because mitosis is a type of cell division that involves the production

of two identical daughter cells. Haploid cells result from an organism

having just one set of chromosome(mitosis) while diploid involves having

two sets of chromosomes(meiosis).

The diploid number is given as 16 chromosomes therefore, the haploid number will be :

16 chromosomes/2 = 8 chromosomes.

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