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The sperm of a man contains 22 autosomes and
  1. Both X and Y chromosome
  2. Only one X chromosome
  3. Either X or Y chromosome
  4. Only one Y chromosome

A
Only one Y chromosome
B
Only one X chromosome
C
Either X or Y chromosome
D
Both X and Y chromosome
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Human follows XX- XY mechanism of sex determination. Human females have forty-six chromosomes arranged in twenty-two homologous and homomorphic autosomes and two copies of X chromosomes as sex chromosomes (44+XX). Males have twenty-two homomorphic pairs and one heteromorphic pair, the XY pair (44+XY). During meiosis, all the gametes produced by females contain only the X chromosome (22 + X). The hemizygous males produce two kinds of gametes, 1/2 gametes with X- and 1/2 with Y-chromosome (22 + X and 22 + Y). Sperm is a haploid structure that carries single chromosome member from each homologous pair. Thus, both X and Y chromosomes cannot be present together in a sperm. Thus, the correct answer is option C.

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