What percentage of its chromosomes does a sperm cell contribute to a new embryo?

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Bhawna
Jun 4, 2018

All of them

Explanation:

Any somatic cell of human body has 46 chromosome but gametes i.e sperm and egg has 23 chromosome each so when they fuse they contribute all of their chromosomes into the zygote such that the number of chromosomes in zygote is 23+23 ie 46,which means that the original number of chromosome are restored

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