[Aric2000]

The ancestor had 48, two of our chromosomes joined up, if you look at the chromosome link, you can see it bigger then big, you can see where the one chromosome of ours, is actually 2 of thiers linked up.

Fascinating stuff...

[goodseedhomeschool]

chromosomes really are cool. For example:
Opossum, redwood tree and kidney bean all have 22 chromes.. Corn, marijuana and a carrot all have 20 chromes. Chimp and tobacco have 48. Interesting.

[Binghamton_native]

Let's see. If I can count right, if apes have 48 chromosomes, and 2 of theirs linked together in humans, that would leave humans with 47 instead of 46. Did you mean to say that 3 of theirs linked together into one of ours?