Answer:
Answer is 30.
Goats have 60 chromosomes in their body cells, so there would be 30 chromosomes in their gametes (egg or sperm cells).
Explanation:
Diploid cell contains two copies of each chromosome, one inherited from mother and the other from father while haploid cell contains only one copy of each chromosome. If the total number of chromosomes in a diploid cell is represented as '2n', then the number of chromosomes in a haploid cell is 'n'. Examples of diploid cells (somatic cells) are skin, blood, muscle cells etc and haploid cells are gametes. Reproductive cells or sex cells of an organism is known as Gametes. They are produced during meiosis. Meiosis is a type of cell division in which four haploid cells are produced from a diploid parent cell having two copies of each chromosome, where the number of chromosomes in the parent cell is reduced to half by undergoing DNA replication and nuclear division. Gametes of female is known as ova or egg cells, male gametes are called sperm and during the fertilization process in an organism, they combined to form a new diploid organism.
