(Q8)
How do we solve this type of question quickly?
is there any trick?
answer is
(2n where n = 4)
2 × 2 × 2 × 2 = 16
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I don’t believe so, this is the fastest way I think. Is the answer correct?
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yes.
can you explain please
Sure! I thought you did the calculation haha. So in meiosis, every spermatozoa which is haploid, which means it has half the chromosome number. which is 4 in this case. We are coming up with different combinations of these genes on the two chromatids.
So we have to use the calculation 2 to the power of n or 2^n. We always use this formula to calculate the numbers of genetically different gametes.
So here if it is 4, we do 2^4 which is 2x2x2x2 which gives 16.
Does this help?
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Thanks 
this really helped
I didn’t know that we can use this formula for different gametes also.
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Yes! Make sure you divide the number by two if they give the value for a normal body cell
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oh yeah right makes sense
thanks btw
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