Submitted by TheBloxyBloxGuy t3_11mdtz4 in askscience
Welpe t1_jbldmmr wrote
Reply to comment by KarlDeutscheMarx in Is there a fertile creature with an odd number of chromosomes? by TheBloxyBloxGuy
You’re associating amount of chromosomes with overall species complexity or advancement or something, which isn’t exactly how it works. More chromosomes isn’t necessarily “better” and fewer isn’t worse, and some of the species with the largest amounts of chromosomes are butterflies and various plants, with hundreds and even over a thousand chromosomes, while some mammals are…well, the Indian Muntjac. There are also some ~10 and into the low teens.
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