Question

What are autosomes? How many autosomes would be found in the normal liver cells of a human female?

Answer 1

Autosomes are the chromosomes other than the sex chromosomes. There is only one pair of sex chromosomes and the remaining count for the autosomes.

In a human cell, there are 23 pairs of chromosomes. The number remains the same irrespective of the location of the cell. Therefore, the female liver cell will also have 23 pairs of chromosomes out of which 22 pairs are autosomes and one pair of sex chromosome i.e. XX.