Becker's World of the Cell 9th Edition by Lewis Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni

Exercise 4

Your Centromere Is Showing. Suppose you have a diploid organism in which all the chromosomes contributed by the sperm have cytological markers on their centromeres that allow you to distinguish them visually from the chromosomes contributed by the egg.
(a)Would you expect all the somatic cells (cells other than gametes)to have equal numbers of maternal and paternal centromeres in this organism Explain.
(b)Would you expect equal numbers of maternal and paternal centromeres in each gamete produced by that individual Explain.