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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Solon who wrote (20060)5/15/2005 9:04:06 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 28931
 
Anyway, sperm do not have the full set of chromosomes

Sperm do have a full set of genes, they just don't have two sets the way most humans do. The real limitation to a sperm that doesn't find the egg is that they don't contain a sufficient mitochondria to provide energy. In some species the egg divides, and then recombines to form two sets of chromosomes from one. This produces an unending line of daughters with no fathers, kind of like the welfare system before Clinton.

TP