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.
One. A gamete is a haploid cell containing one copy of each  chromosome (23 in humans). Each chromosome contains one copy of  each gene. Therefore, a gamete contains one cop â¦ y of each gene. 2 people found this useful.