Question

A fertilized grasshopper egg has 24 chromosomes. How many chromosomes does an adult grasshopper have?


24

48

6

12
GPT-4o mini
An adult grasshopper will have the same number of chromosomes as a fertilized egg, because all somatic cells in the organism retain the diploid number of chromosomes. Since a fertilized grasshopper egg has 24 chromosomes, the adult grasshopper will also have **24 chromosomes**.

So the correct answer is **24**.