Is there a correlation between the number of chromosomes and the complexity of an organism?
There seems to be no scientific evidence that proves complexity of organisms with respect to number of chromosomes. However, the word “complexity” is some what subjective. Though you may think that the more number of chromosomes, the more alleles are coded for and the higher the complexity, it has hard to tell differences. Ex. Humans can differentiate from each other very easly while we cant tell a zebra from another zebra but a baby remebers his/her mother’s stripe pattern at birth. This in our prospective they may not seem as “complex” as us humans but in their eyes they perceive it differently. To answer your question in the way that I think you are asking: If your looking for a specific example of how a less “complex” oraganism’s chromosme number compare to a more “complex” organism, a human has 46 chromosomes but a crayfish has 200.
