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The human sperm cell is haploid, so that its 23 chromosomes can join the 23 chromosomes of the female egg to form a diploid cell. sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoan, spermatozoon-the male reproductive cell; the male gamete; a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material. egg cell, ovum-the female reproductive cell; the female gamete. a mature sexual reproductive cell, as a sperm or egg, that unites with another cell to form a new organism. gameta gametḗ wife, or gametēs gamétēs, husband derivative of gamein gameîn]. to•marry•ga (met ic) gəˈmɛt•ɪk•ga (me tal) gəˈmit. l adj n. A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce a zygote. [New Latin. , from Greek. , wife and. , husband, from. , to marry, from. , marriage; see gemə- in Indo-European roots .]. ga·met′ic (-mĕt′ĭk) adj. Sperm cells are carried out of the male body in a fluid known as semen. Human sperm cells can survive within the female reproductive tract for more than 5 days post coitus. Semen is produced in the seminal vesicles, prostate gland and urethral glands. Sperm is the male reproductive cell and is derived from the Greek word (σπέρμα) sperma (meaning seed). In the types of sexual reproduction known as anisogamy and its subtype oogamy, there is a marked difference in the size of the gametes with the smaller one being termed the male or sperm cell. 1 Oviducts of Oligochaeta, sperm ducts of Phreoryctes, the coelomoducts occupy, like the nephridia, two segments, the funnel opening into that in front of the segment which carries the external pore. 2  There is no possibility that sperm and ova can escape by these tubes not in company with coelomic fluid. Quote. &raquo more... A woman gets saturated with the views of the man she sleeps with. After all (Nature or God-no point to argue) did not construct men so that hundreds of thousands of sperm cells would be wasted; they penetrate the body of a woman and remake it in the image and likeness of the man she belongs to. 1 (uncountable) Semen; the generative substance of male animals. ( 2 cytology) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon. ( 3 chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti. A uniflagellar sperm cell that is motile is referred to as a spermatozoon, whereas a non-motile sperm cell is referred to as a spermatium. Sperm cells cannot divide and have a limited life span, but after fusion with egg cells during fertilization, a new organism begins developing, starting as a totipotent zygote.
Spermatozoan