Question

1. Explain how, offspring and parents of
organisms reproducing sexually have
the same number of chromosomes?​

Answer 1

Two gametes (male and female) fuse together to form a zygote that give rise to a new individual. Each of the gametes has 23 chromosomes means half the number of chromosomes present in a diploid cell (other cells in the paternal and maternal body). ... Hence both parents and offspring has equal number of chromosomes.