Gamete

What is mate choice? How did it evolve and why does it differ between sexes? To answer these questions, we first have to understand what it means to be female and what it means to be male under evolutionary standards and how the two sexes contribute to reproduction. Under biological terms, a female is the sex that produces the ova or egg, which is the larger sex gamete. The egg is large because it contains nutrients and material needed for the development of offspring as well as the DNA of the mother(Gilbert 2000). Meanwhile, a male is defined as the sex that produces the sperm, which is the smaller gamete. The sperm is composed solely of a haploid nucleus (DNA) and a propulsion system that allows it to travel to the egg (Gilbert 2000). The…

Introduction Sea urchin gametes are an excellent model for observing vertebrate development. Sea urchins are a low cost species that can be maintained in a laboratory environment, have external fertilization and have distinct stages for viewing development in offspring. They are external breeders, so when the gametes are mature, they are released into seawater. The seawater carries the gametes where they will fertilize and develop. How does the sperm find the eggs? The jelly coating on the…

The stomach stores swallowed food and liquid. The acid in the stomach breaks down the food and liquid until it empties into the small intestine. The small intestine mixes the food and liquid with digestive juices from the pancreas, live and intestine and pushes into the large intestine (NIDDK, 2016). The large intestine is in control of the waste products. The large intestine absorbs water from the and any other nutrients and then it goes from liquid to stool (NIDDK, 2016). Reproductive System …

However, fertilisation can take place during this process. Fertilisation is the joining of a male and female haploid gamete. Haploid means that the sex cell contains one half of the chromosomes (23 pairs) and half of the genetic information of the body cell. The female sex cell is the oocyte, and the male is the sperm cell. These join to form a diploid zygote, which has 46 chromosomes, two sets of 23 chromosomes from the male and female gamete. The zygote then goes on to become an embryo. (BBC,…

process by which cell division results in the production of new cells containing half the number of chromosomes of the original cell. These cells are recognized as gametes and can recombine in order to create a zygote during fertilization. The purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate a clear understanding of the reproductive process and fertilization, through the presentation of a flow chart of this process in mythical dragons. Method: Step 1) Creative title Step 2) This table displays six…

Nano-dots in Mammalian Gametes Imagining1 The Nano-dots, or Quantum Dots (QD), are nano-scale semiconductor devices with diameter up to 10nm, which were first discovered in 1980s2. Once stimulated, they give emission of light with specific colours, which is then visualised1-3. These nano particles have high size-tunability, once illuminated, different emission wavelength can be obtained by manipulating the size of dots3. Inorganic QDs are made up of two components, an atom-cluster core with…

The chapter is about influence of the selfish gene on the sex. The eggs and sperms involved from the fungi’s selfish isogametes. The no selfish isogametes are same sizes sex cells which fertilized each other but the same isogametes cannot fertilise themselves. The isogametes needed more nutrition to have better children and also quick, sneaky isogametes to fertilise the bigger ones faster. The female’s gametes, the Eggs, are more valuable than the male’s gametes, the sperms. Also the females…

green and it move to light brown towards the roots system. The stem carries water and minerals from the leaves throughout the plants. In the root system they have the primary root, lateral root, and root tip. Root tip has root hairs, and root cap. The roots have a brownish tint to them. The root comes in random of sizes and placements. The functions of the roots are to anchor and support plants (Plant Structures: Stems, CMG GardenNotes). The root can absorb and conduct water minerals and also…

rapid development and their aquatic nature, sea urchins may be particularly sensitive and useful for studying the effects of environmental toxicants on early development. Materials and Methods Harvesting and Culturing Cells/Embryos/Eggs/Sperm Sea urchins were inverted, oral side facing upward, Aristotle’s lantern and the peristomial membrane visible. Urchins were injected with 2 mL of 0.53M KCl through the peristomial membrane into the perivisceral cavity to induce spawning. To optimize…

there were several different Chromaseratops offspring. It is like that because of meiosis. That process creates the cells and gives them chromosomes which become homologous pairs. From there, you can make a lot of different combinations of gametes. For this lab, there was 8 different gametes since there was 3 homologous pairs. For a human there would be way more combinations since we have 23 pairs or 46 chromosomes. Through independent assortment, you receive 2 homologous pairs which can be from…