The island of Manhattan was purchased for wampum. Wampum was used as the main form of Native American Money because it had value as a decorative item, and many Native Americans pierced holes at the top of their wampum and wore them in a belt rather than carrying wampum in a bag.
The human male gamete, also known as a sperm cell, contains 23 chromosomes in total. Humans have 22 chromosome pairs as well as two sex chromosomes, for a total of 46 chromosomes. The gamete produced by each sex contains half, or 23, of these chromosomes.
How many chromosomes do you have in your gametes? 23 Gametes (eggs and sperm) need to have half the normal chromosome number OS that when they combine the create a normal (or diploid) cell with 46 chromosomes. How many chromosomes are in a female human gamete? There are 23 chromosomes in a female human gamete.