Homologous chromosomes

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At first I thought they were just chromosomes with identical sister chromatids, but apparently that’s all chromosomes. I just don’t understand what these are

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Homologous chromosomes refers to a pair of chromosomes. So, #1 from sperm and #1 from egg are together a set of homologous chromosomes. We have 22 sets of homologous chromosomes, making 44 total plus your two sex chromosomes for a total of 46 in humans.

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