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A platypus has 26 types of chromosomes. How many total chromosomes would be present in an intestinal cell from a platypus?

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A total of 52 total chromosomes would be present in an intestinal cell from a platypus. Two copies of each chromosome will be found in the somatic cell of the platypus. Ten of the chromosomes will be the sex chromosomes. 
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