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.
in each body cell there are 23 pairs of chromosomes so therefore 46 overall in each cell. one of each pair comes from the mother and the other comes from the father. however sex cells (gametes) only contain 23 chromosomes because they contain half the genetic information of a normal cell.