An organism that reproduces sexually has a diploid number of 40. The total chromosomes the gamete will be having is 20.
An organism consists of two types of cells in their body, somatic cells and germs cells/ gametes.
During the process of meiosis, a diploid number of chromosome is cut down to haploid. This division is an important event since after fertilization haploid chromosomes from each gamete (male and female) fuse to retain the diploid state in the zygote.
Diploid means two sets of chromosome and haploid is one set.
A somatic cell is any biological cell forming the body of multicellular organism and takes part in the composition of the organism and divides through the binary fission and mitotic division.
Gametes cells are the fuse together during sexual reproduction giving rise to gametes.
Gametes are the haploid cell that fuse with another haploid cell during the process of fertilizations reproducing sexually. These are also called as sex cells.
Haploid cells refer to the number of set of chromosomes found in gamete.
Haploid name is in the sense refers to exactly half the number of sets of chromosomes found in somatic cell. Thus an organism whose gametic cells containing single copy of each chromosome is considered as Haploid whereas those containing two copies of chromosomes are called as Diploid.
Diploid cells have two homologous copies of each chromosomes from mother and father respectively.
Human diploid cells have 46 chromosomes i.e. 2n.
To learn more about chromosomes here
https://brainly.com/question/1596925
#SPJ2
