Body cells

• Cells in multicellular organism that play no direct part in fertilization
• Cells undergo mitosis for growth and development
• Human body cells has 46 chromosomes or diploid
• Gametes are sex cells that are involved in fertilization and it has 23 chromosomes
• Body cells: Mitosis
• Sex cells: Meiosis
• Zygote is the fertilized egg that develops into a human embryo
• Gender is found in the chromosomes
• Egg cell is always X
• Sperm cell is X or Y
• Chromosomes Theory of Inheritance states that chromosomes are the carrier of the genes that is passed on from parents to offspring
• Chromosomes Theory of Inheritance was developed by Sutton Boveri