Most scientific investigations use some form of the scientific method. Find out more about the scientific method. Science as defined above is sometimes called pure science to differentiate it from applied science, which is the application of research to human needs.
There are 13 chromosomes in a frog gamete and 26 in a frog body cell.
How many chromosomes do people have? In humans, each cell normally contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46. Twenty-two of these pairs, called autosomes, look the same in both males and females. The 23rd pair, the sex chromosomes, differ between males and females.