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If an organism's gametes contain 25 chromosomes, how many chromosomes will their somatic (body cells) contain?

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Somatic cells are diploid, meaning that they contain two sets of chromosomes, one inherited from each parent

Step-by-step explanation:

At the end of mitosis, the two daughter cells will be exact copies of the original cell. Each daughter cell will have 30 chromosomes. At the end of meiosis II, each cell (i.e., gamete) would have half the original number of chromosomes, that is, 15 chromosomes. 2

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