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Personally I didn't know previously that a sperm contained mitochondria. (I'd thought it not to be proper cell whereas the ovum was). Discussions on heredity at
by barking 8y ago
Personally I didn't know previously that a sperm contained mitochondria. (I'd thought it not to be proper cell whereas the ovum was). Discussions on heredity at the level I'd be at always said that mitochondrial DNA would reveal the female line in the way the y chromosome does the male one. So it was surprising news to me anyway.
- cruella_deville 8y agospermatozoa are like a bargeload of magnetic tape. the dna is packed up in an acrosome that serves to [in humans] , eject the paternal contribution into the egg. --this is pushed around by a flagellating tail that is powered by numerous mitochondria, most of them burnout, any that make it to eggplasm are challenged in other ways.