T RANSLATION OF M ENDEL ' S I DEA #1 An organism must inherit a single copy of every gene from both its parents Remember, each of the 46 chromosomes needs to halved by the parents (to make 23) Parents will only contribute each of those 23 genes one time to their offspring (parents do not want to give multiple copies of the same gene) So, again 23 + 23 = 46 chromosomes total
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