News about Joan Claybrook, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.o the Editor: John Tierney suggests that the 1978 fuel-economy standards made vehicles lighter and thus less safe. But the fact is that after the standards took effect, 85 percent of fuel economy gains came from gas-saving technologies, not...
Scientists concluded that the average human body contains approximately 37.2 trillion cells! Of course, your body will have more or fewer cells than that total, depending upon how your size compares to the average human being, but that's a good starting point for estimating the number of cells in your own body.
The human body cells have 22 pairs of autosomes and 1 pair of sex chromosomes for a total of 23 pairs or 46 chromosomes. Sex cells for humans will have half of that (because they are not paired) so a total of 23 chromosomes. The short answer is 46 chromosomes in the human body cell.