Human Karotype and Homologous Chromosomes

Question 1

What is a karotype?

Answer 1

A karotype is an individual’s complete set of chromosomes

Question 2

How many chromosomes/homologous pairs of chromosomes in a human cell?

Answer 2

A normal human cells has 46 chromosomes or 23 homologous pairs of chromosomes
- one member of each homologous pair of chromosomes is inherited from one parent

Question 3

What are homologous chromosomes

Answer 3

Homologous chromosomes have the same shape, same length and the same genes in the same order (same loci)