how many chromosomes would be in the nucleus of the unfertilized egg?
4 Drosophila unfertilized egg cell will have 4 chromosomes as egg cell is haploid and haploid number of chromosomes in drosophila is 4. Human egg cells will have 23 chromosomes, as the haploid number of chromosomes in humans is 23. Ans. 3 Meiosis is important because it produces gametes, female or male germ cells.