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You are a scientist working in the field who has discovered a new species of newts. You obtain a skin cell sample and determine the diploid number for the organism is 26. This tells you that the egg or sperm of these newts would have _____ chromosomes.

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User Eumiro
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52 chromosomes; this is because then diploid cells are made up of two chromosomes
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