Father's Day Gift? Special Packaging for Genes in Sperm

Sunday, June 14, 2009 - 13:49 in Biology & Nature

It was long believed that conception does not involve a meeting of equals. The egg is a relatively large, impressive biological factory compared with the tiny sperm, which delivers to the egg one copy of the father’s genes.

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