Oak Anthracnose. Anthracnose is a general term used to describe diseases that result in a wide range of symptoms including leaf spots, blotches or distortion, defoliation, shoot blight, twig cankers and dieback on many different deciduous trees and shrubs. In most cases, anthracnose does not cause permanent damage to established trees.
1 Germ cells have only half the number of chromosomes as a diploid cell Â­ one of each pair-and are termed haploid (n) . 2  In a human egg or sperm, there are 23 chromosomes, one of which is an X or Y. 3  The number of chromosomes is reduced from 46 to 23 during the process of meiosis.
The DNA in all human cells except eggs and sperm is housed in 46 chromosomes. Eggs and sperm consist of only half that number, 23 chromosomes per cell. Every person inherits one set of chromosomes from their mother (in the egg) and the other set of chromosomes from their father (in the sperm).