Word Origin and History for corpus delicti. 1832, Latin, literally body of the offense; not the murder victim's body, but the basic elements that make up a crime; in the case of a murder, including the body of the murdered person.
Or: there are 23 unique types of chromosome in your cells (remember, we are treating the sex chromosomes as the same for simplicity). After replication of the 46 chromosomes, the cell contains 92 chromatids (in 46 pairs). After mitosis two identical cells are created with the same original number of chromosomes, 46. Haploid cells that are generated through meiosis, such as egg and sperm, only have 23 chromosomes, because, remember, meiosis is a reduction division..
Now, note that after the final meiotic split (which produced 4 cells in total), each of the final gametocytes has 23 individual chromosomes. 22 of those chromosomes are the halves of the autosomal chromosome pairs, and one of the chromosomes is either an X or a Y chromosome.