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Sperm Article (1) What is a germ cell? (male germ cell and female germ cell) (2) Compare the size of a sperm to an egg. Insert a picture here comparing the sizes. (3) Compare the number of eggs produced by human females to the number sperm produced by human males. (4) Describe semen. What is the purpose of semen? (5) What can be wrong with sperm? What percentage of sperm are usually normal? (6) Where do sperm develop? Why could a fever disrupt sperm production for months? (7) Describe in detail the three parts of a sperm cell. (8) How do the sperm react to being in the female reproductive tract? How do they know where to go? (9) How is the egg only fertilized by one sperm?
 * Sperm: the smallest cell in the body.
 * egg: Can be seen with the naked eye. 30 time the width of sperm
 * For a lifetime, females carry 1 million eggs. Only 500 eggs will ever have a chance to fertilize
 * Men produce 4 million new sperm cells every hour per testicle. For a lifetime men will have a total of 12 trillion.
 * It is nonspermic fluid and consists of a viscous mix of sugars, citric acid and other ingredients designed to pamper and power the sperm cells for their journey into the female body.
 * 15% of sperm are usually normal.
 * Maybe is the sperm were abnormally shaped, pinheaded, no tails, more than one one head
 * They are developed in the testes
 * They are created in 2 degree temp. below the body temp. so a fever can disrupt sperm production.