Quote Originally Posted by Pioner
What number of chromosomes has to do with evolution? And Amoeba cell is much larger then human's cell, what is this surprise about?
Well here I think we need to decide which human cells are we talking about? Some human cells (egg cells) are bigger than amoebas. A human egg cell is about 250 microns, while an average amoeba is 100 microns. But yet, a human egg cell has half the number of chromosomes as a normal human cell, becuase it is a sex cell. So cell size really has nothing to do with the number of chromosomes.

As for your other point, chromosome number is just another argument against evolution. If you take the number of chromosomes for certain organisms, and align them in the order of that organisms "appearance" on earth as a result of "evolution", you find that the numbers have no specific pattern.

Here's a simple one:

Humans 46
Monkeys 48
Dogs 78
Sheep 54
Rats 42
Flies 12
Lizards 46
Lobsters 100

Removing a certain number of chromosomes or adding them for that matter, will not create a whole new species. Removing chromosomes would completely destroy the individual. To remove a chromosome would literally be to remove millions of parts of the organism.

So I guess my point is, following the logic of evolution, simpler organisms should have smaller chromosomal counts. As the complexity of the organism increases, so the does the amount of information in the DNA, which calls for more DNA, which calls for more chromosomes.

A simple algae called the Cosmarium can have around 140 chromosomes.

A very simple protozoa called Radiolaria has around 800 chromosomes!

But yet a human has only 46.

Something isn't right here. This does not follow evolution at all....