What are somatic cells and gametes?
Somatic cells are body cells (SOMA=body). All human somatic cells contain 46 chromosomes, which include 44 autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes. All human gametes contain 23 chromosomes, which include 22 autosomes and 1 sex chromosome (an X or a Y of it’s a sperm cell, or an X if it’s an ovum). Dog somatic cells have 76 autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes (XY if it’s male and XX if it”s a female). for a total of 78…