We have all seen the moving pictures of the living sperm swimming to fertilize the egg in the womb. We have not observed any life in the egg until the sperm brings life into it.
2006-12-12 20:57:19 · 9 answers · asked by Saul T 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
That's not true. The egg is living; it's just that it is a non-motile cell. The cytoplasm in its interior is in constant, living, seething, motion.Look at one under a microscope. Both the egg and the sperm are nearly equally necessary for a new life to begin. They each carry about half the genetic material DNA. I say "about half"because the egg in addition contributes a small amount of mitochondrial DNA, cytoplasmically, that comes only from the mother. The mother in most animals including humans is therefor more important genetically than the father.
In addition the mother carries and nurtures the growing developing fetus while the father contributes nothing to its growth except, in humans, to provide loving care and sustenance for the mother.After the fetus comes into the world through birth and becomes a human baby the mother continues to provide the greater amount of nourishment and care to and for the growing child. It is not a competitive relationship between the mother and father but one of loving cooperation. Both continue to be necessary for the infants proper development physically and psychologically.
2006-12-12 22:05:56 · answer #1 · answered by Mad Mac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sperm is not always necessary for the egg cell to cleave. In some animals, like some bees in a hive, the egg develops into an adult without being fertilized. An egg developing w/o fertilization has been done in the lab, also, with animals as big as frogs.
Look up: PARTHENOGENESIS.
2006-12-13 00:44:02 · answer #2 · answered by ursaitaliano70 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're thought process is only half complete: there's no life in the egg till the sperm gets there, but without the egg, the sperm would not have anything to fertilise.
Moral: life cannot be created with either one alone....so both men & women are equally important.
2006-12-12 21:09:47 · answer #3 · answered by Peace 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Both egg and sperm are living cells but they cannot replicate as have only 1/2 DNA required..it is only the union which allows egg to grow into another being.
Besides if a woman carries the growing child and then shoots it out a small opening then she has EARNED the right to say she created it.
2006-12-13 01:44:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
and yet the egg exist anyway? I believe woman are considered to be the creator of life for manyreasons due to the fact that women can carry the next set of organs for a totally some of nine months thus a woman for some reason can loose a good amount of blood in a cycle where as a man could not replemish there body at this rate .thee is no question that man maybe the donor . yet yes the woman is the creature for she gives birth . and man can not .
2006-12-12 22:13:33 · answer #5 · answered by 00 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ovum is also alive.Moreover the ovum provides the machinery for protein synthesis.The egg has ribosomes and mitochondria. The embryo is implanted in the uterus of the woman who has to nourish it all the time and carry the growing foetus. She has to bear the weight and feel it all the time. What she inhales and what she takes in for food and drink goes in part to the foetus.Her feelings for the growing fetus and concern for its wellbeing is matchless.
2006-12-12 21:18:35 · answer #6 · answered by Ishan26 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because, even though it takes a male and a female to conceive, the woman is the one who carries, nourishes and ultimately delivers the baby.
2006-12-12 23:30:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coz making sperms alone is not a tough job.
2006-12-12 21:23:44 · answer #8 · answered by grefriend 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One cant create life without the other.It takes two to tango ;O)
2006-12-12 21:00:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋