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The normal body cell of an organism contains 28 pairs of chromosomes. The number of chromosomes present in its germ cell will be :
(a) 28
(b) 14
(c) 56
(d) 42

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(b) 14

A germ cell has 14 pairs of chromosomes i.e. half the number of chromosomes present in the normal body cell of an organism.

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