It’s all about the chromosomes, baby! Leondires explains, “Chromosome complement is what determines the sex of a baby. Most people have 46 chromosomes. People who are born with ovaries have ...

Every chromosome in one set has a matching partner in the other set that has the same length of DNA and the same genes. Cells that contain two sets of chromosomes are said to be diploid.

The full complement of human chromosomes can be cut, schematically at least, into about 150 pieces (only about 100 are large enough to appear in this illustration), then reassembled into a ...

Each nucleus now contains four chromosomes (two sets of two chromosomes) exactly the same complement as the original parent cell. The cytoplasm of the cell then divides in two to produce two ...