In eukaryotes[edit]

These tables give the total number of chromosomes (including sex chromosomes) in a cell nucleus.
For example, most eukaryotes are diploid, like humans who have 22 different types of autosomes,
each present as two homologous pairs, and two sex chromosomes. This gives 46 chromosomes in
total. Other organisms have more than two copies of their chromosome types, such as bread wheat,
which is hexaploid and has six copies of seven different chromosome types – 42 chromosomes in
total.

Chromosome Chromosome Chromosome numbers in other organisms

numbers in numbers (2n) in
some plants some animals
Interm
Large
Speci ediate Microchro
Chrom
Plant Species # es Chrom mosomes
# osomes
Species osomes

Indian muntjac 7
Arabidopsis Trypan
thaliana (dip 10 osoma 11 6 ≈100
loid)[41] brucei
Common fruit
8
fly

Rye (diploid Domesti
14
)[42] c pigeon
Pill
(Colum
millipede (Art 18 – 59–63
30 ba livia
hrosphaera
domesti
Einkorn fumosa)[47]
cs)[64]
wheat (diplo 14
id)[43]
Earthworm (O
2 sex
ctodrilus 36 Chicken 8 chromoso 60
Maize complanatus) [65]

[48] mes
(diploid or
20
palaeotetrapl
oid) [44]

Tibetan fox 36

Durum
wheat (tetra 28 Domestic cat[49] 38
ploid)[43]

Domestic pig 38
Bread
wheat (hexa 42
ploid)[43]
Laboratory
40
mouse[50][51]
 Chromosome Chromosome
numbers in numbers (2n) in
some plants some animals

Plant Species #
#
Species

Laboratory
42
Cultivated rat[51]
tobacco (tetr 48
aploid)[45]
Rabbit
(Oryctolagus 44
Adder's appr cuniculus)[52]
tongue ox.
fern (polypl 1,20
oid)[46] 0
Syrian
44
hamster[50]

Guppy (poecil
46
ia reticulata)[53]

Human[54] 46

Hares[55][56] 48

Gorillas, chim
48
panzees[54]

Domestic
54
sheep

Garden snail[57] 54

Silkworm[58] 56

Elephants[59] 56
 Chromosome
numbers (2n) in
some animals

Species #

Cow 60

Donkey 62

Guinea pig[60] 64

Horse 64

Dog[61] 78

Hedgehog 90

100
Goldfish[62] –
104

Kingfisher[63] 132

Normal members of a particular eukaryotic species all have the same number of nuclear

chromosomes (see the table). Other eukaryotic chromosomes, i.e., mitochondrial and plasmid-like
small chromosomes, are much more variable in number, and there may be thousands of copies per
cell.