Human cells contain two sets of chromosomes, one inherited from the mother and one from the father.

Each set has 23 single chromosomes--22 autosomes and a sex-determining chromosome, either X or Y. The set shown here is from a male, since it contains an X and a Y chromosome; if the chromosome set were from a female, it would contain an X and an X.

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