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Nope; you read it right. Each sperm has 23 chromosomes (as opposed to the 23 pairs of chromosomes contains in non sperm cells). These chromosomes are imaginatively numbered 1 through 23. In any particular sperm cell, chromosome 1 could have come from either your mother or your father. The sperm...

No. Every cell in your body has a pair of each of 23 chromosomes, one from your mother, and one from your father. Every cell, that is, other than sperm cells. Sperm cells carry only one copy of each chromosome, but it is random whether it is a copy of the chromosome from your mother or from your...