Molecular Biology Of The Cell 6th Edition by Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

Exercise 13

Which statements are true? explain why or why not.
-4 The human genome consists of 23 pairs of chro- mosomes (22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chro- mosomes). During meiosis, the maternal and paternal sets of homologs pair, and then are separated into gametes, so that each contains 23 chromosomes. If you assume that the chromosomes in the paired homologs are randomly assorted to daughter cells, how many potential combina- tions of paternal and maternal homologs can be gener- ated during meiosis? (For the purposes of this calculation, assume that no recombination occurs.)