How are the chromosomes that make up the human genome inherited from parents?

A. ? from the mother and ? from the father
B. ½ from the mother and ½ from the father
C. ¾ from the mother and ¼ from the father
D. ¾ from the father and ¼ from the mother
E. ? from the father and ? from the mother


B. ½ from the mother and ½ from the father

Forty-six chromosomes (23 pairs) are found inside the nucleus of every human cell, except egg and sperm cells, which have 23 chromosomes each. We inherit half of our chromosome complement from our mother and half from our father.

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