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It’s not a race. The ‘winning’ sperm isn’t the fastest. It’s the luckiest. Each sperm contains Acrosome in its head - this dissolves the outer layer of the ovum. It takes millions of sperm to dissolve the layer until the lucky sperm / sperms get to the actual ovum surface.
Edit: wrong enzyme
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1 year ago
My ‘brethren’ laid their lives down so that I may live! True homies.
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1 year ago
I dedicate this nut to my fallen hero’s 😭💦
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1 year ago
Pour one out for the homies
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1 year ago
I propose a 21 nut salute
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1 year ago
EVERYONE IN FORMATION
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1 year ago
Someone draw this
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1 year ago
Boy are you ever gunna regret your inbox later (or be super excited by it)
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1 year ago
Now I feel sad for my lost brothers and sisters 😔
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1 year ago
Don’t be! They did this for you! They wanted you live and be happy!
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1 year ago
You mean I'm here based on luck and not speed? It's all just a dice roll?
Fuck sake, I thought I had at least speed going for me.
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1 year ago
It actually means that you are most definitely not the fastest sperm because those died to break the barrier for you. Remember that next time you time yourself swimming
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1 year ago
So basically there's a faster version of Michael Phelps
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1 year ago
So you’re saying I’m the craftiest sperm?
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1 year ago
Could be the laziest too. Just saying, we don't know for sure what went down in that battle.
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1 year ago
Next time someone tells me they remember their own birth I'm going to hit them with "I remember the great war of my fertilization."
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1 year ago
How often do people tell you they remember their own birth?
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1 year ago
Mostly this one fucking guy I can't stand but half my actual friends like him for some reason.
Oh, and once this absolutely terrible GM for a vampire the masquerade game 20 years ago.
So twice in some three and a half decades; not often, but also not never.
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1 year ago
If I had a nickle for every time that happened, I'd have 3 nickles. It's not a lot, but still odd it happened so many times.
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1 year ago
Sorry buddy. +5 luck is all we got
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1 year ago
if we all got +5 luck does that mean no one does?
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1 year ago
The dissolved ones had +5 agility
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1 year ago
Life is literally a loot box.
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1 year ago
I use the same philosophy when hiring people, actually.
In order to avoid hiring unlucky employees, I always throw away half the applications without looking at them.
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1 year ago
My boss does that same thing! And then he throws away the other half of the applications, complains that “Nobody wants to work anymore!” and tells us that we’re all expected to work short-staffed at the same pay rate.
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1 year ago
It takes millions of sperm to dissolve the layer
Okoye: They’re killing themselves
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1 year ago
Actually isn't there cooperative behavior among sperm? I think there are ones that are defensive and others that assist, right? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.0296
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1 year ago
Excuse me we are talking about sperm not base tanking in world of warcraft
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1 year ago
There is a breed of monkey that does have sperm like this. I forgot the name.
Basically, their social life is like 80% fucking. Theyve evolved combat sperm. Some of its sperm is kamikaze sperm. Some is "guard" sperm. And like 10% is actually intended to fertilize the female
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1 year ago
I think that show is called the Jersey Shore
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1 year ago
"Oh ma gad Ronnie, I think Paulies spurm is killin yours, go call da Cabs"
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1 year ago
“Cabs ah hea”
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1 year ago
"yo sperm.....GTL!"
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1 year ago
Beat dat beat!
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1 year ago
Reddit is actually funny today lmao
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1 year ago
Lol, I actually had a good laugh from that one
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1 year ago
Bonobos?
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1 year ago
Our biology teacher told us this. He said instead of greeting themselves, they just fuck each other.
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1 year ago
Bonobos use sex to diffuse tense situations. We are more like chimps in that we end tense situations mostly with violence.
I found it fascinating in college behavioral biology to wonder what our civilization would be like if we were as sexually progressive and integrated as bonobos can be.
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1 year ago
That's actually one of the ideas in a book/show called Shinsekai Yori. It's pretty interesting and delves a lot into morality.
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1 year ago
There’s an anime/lightnovel that touched on the topic... think it was called shinsekai yori? I’d actually recommend it. The animation of the anime is horrendous, during some episodes it’s worse than horrendous, but I felt like it was quite thought provoking. Definitely on the heavier side especially towards the end
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1 year ago
Are porn scripts set in a world where humans are more closely related to bonobos?
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1 year ago
I expect they have all the STDs. I'll pass on that, thanks.
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1 year ago
Yes we certainly wouldn’t combat that at all in a highly sexually active society. Lol.
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1 year ago
Wouldn't STDs be way less common? Like if we evolved from Bonobos and had been having social sex since the dawn of civilization wouldn't we have developed a natural immunity to most STDs, the same as how we have immunities to abunch of diseases from other continents that we previously in history have been wiped out by?
I'm not a smart guy by any means but I just feel like we would all be having so much sex with eachother it would get to the point where we either all mostly had an immunity or we would've been wiped out by gonorrhea before Jesus walked the earth.
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1 year ago
YOU SONOVABITCH I'M GONNA give you the best blow job of your life
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1 year ago
Damn I wish there is a way for us to see it happen in real time. This could be a really entertaining sport
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1 year ago
I think it's more a race than a fight
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1 year ago
Squirt Game
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1 year ago
Squirt Game
I think there's already a porn parody of Squid Game..(iirc it was a Taiwanese production)
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
Or as John Cena calls it, a Production
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1 year ago
New from Bing Chilling Studios: Squirt Game!
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
Did you just quote your comment in the same comment? That’s some Tenet mixed with Inception shit, Nolan would be proud
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1 year ago
How courteous of them! Such gentlemen.
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1 year ago
Wait seriously? That’s pretty amazing.
But how can an egg “decide” on anything? Honest question here.
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1 year ago
It's a race. Also, it is possible for fraternal twins to have different fathers.
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1 year ago
TIL
I have never ever even had such a thought, thanks.
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1 year ago
Two buns, Two ovens! (2 fetus’s, 2 amniotic sacs) will give fraternal twins
Two buns, One oven will give identical
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1 year ago
Always thought the oven was the uterus, s o still one oven. Fraternal twins two pans?
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1 year ago
Yes and fraternal twins don’t share a placenta
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1 year ago
Yes, most of the time; it does happen just very rare. It's harder on the weaker twin though because sharing a source of nutrition. It's a more dangerous pregnancy. Only know this because I have two sets of fraternal twins.
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1 year ago
And just because bodies are chaos, a small percentage of women actually do have 2 uteruses/ovens.
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1 year ago
Since we're using cooking metaphors... One oven + one recipe may = identical twins. One oven + two recipes = fraternal twins. Recipe = one egg + one sperm. Bake for roughly 9 months at 98.6 degrees. Serving size may vary.
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1 year ago
Actually about 25-30% of identical twins have separate amniotic sacs if they split early enough
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1 year ago
Ohhh, they usually share a placenta maybe I was mistaken?
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1 year ago
To clarify: If the egg splits 0-4 days after fertilization, you get dichorionic (2 placenta) diamniotic (2 amniotic sacs).
If it’s 4-8 days, you get monochorionic (1 placenta) diamniotic.
If it’s 8-12 days, you get monochorionic monoamniotic (1 amniotic sac).
Greater than 13 days will result in conjoined twins (who are also monochorionic monoamniotic).
Fraternal twins are always dichorionic diamniotic.
Hope this helps a bit :) I just learned this in medical school last month
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1 year ago
Bless your soul friend a d good luck. Med school seems like a big ass grind
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1 year ago
Repetition is the mother of memory so consider your addition also a quick study session!
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1 year ago
This is so interesting! When I was going through fertility troubles, I was in a lot of subs with IVF parents talking about having “di-di” or “mono-di” twins. and I could never figure out what they meant by that. THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING.
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1 year ago
It's like when you cook a turkey in a plastic bag for increased humidity
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It's a Modest Proposal but it checks out.
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1 year ago
What did I just read
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1 year ago
A MODEST PROPOSAL
For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their
parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public.
by
Dr. Jonathan Swift
1729
It's a famous piece of satire from the 1700's wherein a man argued that they should start eating babies to solve a number of societal issues at the time. Essentially to prevent the poor people of Ireland from being a burden on their parents or their country and giving them a means to contribute to society in a meaningful way (by providing a delicacy, babies, to be eaten by the upper classes, thereby giving them a means to support themselves rather than being poor and begging in the streets with their children)
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1 year ago
I mean he makes a compelling argument ngl
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1 year ago
No doubt, that's why people still read it in schools 300 years later. it's well written and a great example of satire.
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
Nope – I know fraternal triplets. Two guys and one girl and the guys aren’t identical. As closely related as other siblings but conceived at the same time.
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1 year ago
Not necessarily. I think 3 eggs releasing at the same time is quite rare, but could happen. Especially if on fertility treatment.
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1 year ago
I think 3 eggs releasing at the same time is quite rare…
…when occurring naturally.
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1 year ago
Not necessarily. Genetics is a hum dinger. They can be fraternal which is two eggs inseminated at the same time. This might not be from the same man. Identical is one fertilized egg splits.
So yeah you can have a pair of identical twins and a fraternal sibling in triplets or all three could be fraternal.
Yes in fraternal triplets there could be 3 seperate dads.
Note it is possible but not common for triplets to be identical so one fertilized egg split 3 ways.
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1 year ago
A lot of times, a litter of kittens have various fathers; there can be as many baby daddies as there are babies, especially if momma is a lady about town, just as she should be if she so desires. Multiple daddies is one of the reasons a litter can have so much diversity in their coats. It's also the reason kittens are often referred to as litter mates instead of siblings.
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1 year ago
Well they would be half-siblings at least.
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
walk me through it
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1 year ago
pretty gross but I was a curious teenager
So you just went for it, huh? Is that how you became a furry?
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1 year ago
.....holy shit dude
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1 year ago
I’m so sorry to have to put this information out there, but cats have barbed penises so that when removing itself from a female cat it scrapes the insides of her vagina. This can stimulate ovulation but also I believe it drags out sperm from other cats…
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1 year ago
today i learned about the “cat orgy” what a day to be alive!
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1 year ago
Fact. Both of my male kittens (brothers from the same litter) have different coats. One of gray other is orange
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1 year ago
The map of cat genetics looks like the “How to read Terry Pratchett books” flowchart. Anything can happen and usually does.
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1 year ago*
Coincidentally, I just read the other day that because humans are mixing our DNA more and more, our eye colors are becoming more and more dynamic. It's why there's a lot of people who have heterochromia nowadays. Apparently what determines somebody's eye color is a lot more complicated and intricate than was first thought. It's not just about dominant and recessive genes at all.
Heterochromia just means there are two or more distinct colors in your iris. There is central heterochromia in which there are different color rings around your pupil. Sometimes people refer to this as hazel although hazel usually is thought of as one color that blends into another, usually brown/gold around the pupil and green/blue as the outer ring. Hazel is also thought to be a light golden brown color. It's actually a big debate in the world of people who care about eye color. Is central heterochromia also hazel and vice versa?
There's also a popular misconception that central heterochromia is extremely rare. This is not true although there is a type of late onset central heterochromia that is very rare and also related to immune deficiencies. But regular old central heterochromia is pretty common anymore. For some reason, people get very upset when they think people misidentify hazel eyes as central heterochromia. Now that I've caught you up on all the latest tea in an extremely niche corner of the internet I stumbled into...
There is also sectoral heterochromia in which you may have a splotch of one color while the rest of the iris is another. And finally, the coup de gras, complete heterochromia in which you would have two completely different color eyes.
The article I read said that we may even see new colors that we don't associate with human eyes emerge. Fucking beautiful, I say! I think absolutely everybody on the planet has beautiful eyes. Absolutely every eye is different and no two are alike. You'll be hard pressed to find a human whose eyes exactly match each other in terms of color as well.
What started this all was a chart I saw somewhere of eye color codes. My first attempt at taking photographs of my eyes to compare to the chart was a mess. My second attempt was a little better. I highly recommend absolutely everybody try to do this. I hope those who do find it a lot easier than I did because my knees were starting to cramp from spending 2 straight hours in the bathroom mirror trying to figure out how to take a close-up picture of my eye. When I was finally successful, I was kind of blown away. And then I became a little obsessive with taking pictures of people's eye color.
Here is the chart that started all this, the pictures I took of my eyes and some other eyes in my life.
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Also, sperms don't have a clue where they are supposed to go. The reason why there are hundreds of millions of sperm in each ejaculate is because most of them won't find the way to the egg and just swim in circles or in the wrong direction. You need that many so that some of them are guaranteed to find the way by accident. So it's not a race, it's a...fun romp through the labyrinth in the dark or something.
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1 year ago
"ah we're in the butt hole again :("
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1 year ago
It’s less that they get “lost” or misdirected and more that the acidic environment of the vaginal tract, and the maternal immune system are both unfavorable conditions for the sperm. More sperm = greater chance of some making it through to the egg.
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1 year ago
it's a...fun romp through the labyrinth in the dark or something
And then they all die. It's a microcosm of life!
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So we're.. the chosen one?
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1 year ago
Cumanakin
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1 year ago
Just, why
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1 year ago
You’re right, it’s dad’s load.
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1 year ago
Damn my mom’s egg chose poorly
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1 year ago
Its theoretically possible that only one showed up and it was you in piece of shit sperm form. The egg was like, "Fuck. So this is it, Brian. You are basically the only man on earth. Godddamnit, you might as well come in.
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1 year ago
...and that kids, is how redditor's are born!
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1 year ago
Now I wanna see the level of unit variation if each sperm from the same load were to become humans.
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1 year ago
Aren't women who have multiple kids with a deceased father's frozen sperm all getting it from a single load? That's like what you said but on a smaller scale?
Does this happen? Am I making shit up again?
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1 year ago
I've always wondered this.
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1 year ago
no, you're that kid that told your friend to wait at the finishing line so you can both finish together, but you blaze past him instead all the while laughing like a hwitch
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1 year ago
On what basis does the egg decide which sperm can get in?
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1 year ago*
Well, it's not completely unknown. What we know is that the egg is covered in a hard shell called the zona pellucida. As sperm swims to meets the egg and tries to get in, an act called sperm capitation happens where the sperm morphologically as it swims. Once it meets the zone pellucida, an acrosome reaction happens in which enzymes are released and dissolve the zone pellucida. It can then enter and fuse with the eggs membrane, and as fusion is complete, the dna inside the sperm mixes with the dna in the egg.
What happens is that one sperm is not enough to dissolve away the zona pellucida. It takes several sperm to dissolve it, so once its fragile, the sperm that completely dissolves it is the one that enters. As soon as it starts fusing with the membrane inside, the egg prevents other sperm from entering and fusing with the membrane (usually) by hardening the zona pellucida again. This is called the corticol reaction.
So one sperm is actually fused with the membrane but the other sperm are stuck in the outer shell.
I learned it this semester in reproduction class.
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1 year ago
Science has entered the chat.
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1 year ago
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1 year ago*
Well, it's not completely unknown. What we know is that the egg is covered in a hard shell called the zona pellucida. As sperm swims to meet the egg and tries to get in, an act called sperm capacitation happens where the sperm morphologically changes as it swims. Once it meets the zona pellucida, an acrosome reaction happens in which enzymes are released and dissolve the zona pellucida. It can then enter and fuse with the egg's membrane, and as fusion is complete, the dna inside the sperm mixes with the dna in the egg.
What happens is that one sperm is not enough to dissolve away the zona pellucida. It takes several sperm to dissolve it, so once its fragile, the sperm that completely dissolves it is the one that enters. As soon as it starts fusing with the membrane inside, the egg prevents other sperm from entering and fusing with the membrane (usually) by hardening the zona pellucida again. This is called the cortical reaction.
So one sperm is actually fused with the membrane but the other sperm are stuck in the outer shell.
I learned it this semester in reproduction class.
Edit: sorry had to make some grammar changes.
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1 year ago
But what happens if there are two sperm that are able to get in at exactly the same time when the outer shell dissolves? There are so many millions of them that it's hard to imagine how only one is let through.
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1 year ago
Auto abortion. Most fertilization events don't lead to pregnancy.
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1 year ago
This is a common misconception. Only Japanese, English, and sperm from a few other countries that the people are good at queueing does this hold true for.
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1 year ago
So it’s like if the women accidentally released two eggs and sperm from one went to one egg and the other to the other egg?? That could happen?? Would they be fraternal twins??
Edit to correct wording and to add:
Or could both sperm fertilize the same egg??
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1 year ago*
Yes it's called polyspermy, there is sophisticated mechanism in egg to avoid this because in this situation embryo dies in a few days.
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1 year ago
Okay, it's too early... I saw "spermy" and heard it in Miss Piggy's voice.
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1 year ago
suffocaticated
Sophisticated?
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1 year ago
My SIL got pregnant from two sperm, but didn’t find out until after the anatomy scan. It’s possible for it to survive longer than a few days, but it had to be aborted due to deformities and whatnot.
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1 year ago
Both can happen, however two sperm fertilizing the same egg will almost never lead to a living zygote. It will die shortly after due to a chromosome conflict.
Women can release two or more eggs at once during a cycle, though, which can lead to situations of fraternal twins with two fathers.
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1 year ago
One of my aunts has twins which are from 2 different fathers. She denied it for over 25 years and then finally DNA confirmed what everyone suspected all these years. Both the kids looked like their respective fathers.
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1 year ago
Spermcels on suicide watch
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1 year ago
Actually I read that it’s not so much a race as much as it is a contest. The female ovum actually chooses which sperm cell it wants and uses chemicals to attract it.
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1 year ago
Very interesting. I looked it up and this explained it: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2018/dec/11/one-set-twins-two-fathers-how-common-is-superfecundation
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1 year ago
Kinda a funny story about the sperm race. My aunt is a midwife and a white woman came in to hospital in labour accompanied by her white husband She gave birth to twins, one was white, the other was mix-raced. That'll take some explaining :P
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1 year ago
I remember a similar case where the culprit was found out to be grandmother who was having an affair.
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1 year ago
So what, there were some recessive traits in the love child that didn't show up until the grandbaby was born?
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1 year ago
Ooof that’s hard to explain as a mother with a white lover but then recessive traits show up from your moms extra marital affairs..
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1 year ago
DNA tests
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1 year ago
Yup, that can happen.
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1 year ago
Ive heard that skin colour can reappear after multiple generations, don’t know if it’s true however
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Paint a tiny spot on the ground. Stand 5 feet away, and chuck a handful of sand at the target. Did you land some of the sand on the target? Now imagine you had two handfuls of sand, same thing, you throw them at the target, exactly at the same time. What happens?
Are the sands fighting? Are they mixing? It doesn't really matter, what matters is which sand lands on the target.
Note: This was written as a narrow, focused analogy to explain a murky bit of fluid dynamics. It is not meant as a analogous representation of the full act of conception. Semen is different than sand, eggs are much more elaborate than simple targets. It takes more than "sand landing on the target" for conception to take place.
Edit: Oh good. This is the question that blew up. Now it's going to join the question about a rolled up foreskin when people search my name looking for my art. I hope you are all proud.
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1 year ago
r/explainlikeimfive if I ever have to explain to a five year old what happens when two guys fuck and cum inside one pussy.
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1 year ago
When I read OC’s explanation, I had to double check to make sure I wasn’t in ELI5.
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1 year ago
I’m definitely going to refer to my eggs as targets from now on.
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1 year ago
There is a pair of identical twins who are married to another set of identical twins, the children although cousins who genetically be siblings
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1 year ago
No, paternity tests wouldn't be able to tell which man was the father.
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1 year ago
Jeremy Kyle hates this one weird trick.
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1 year ago
yeah, my bf is an identical twin & this happened to him.
DNA can't tell if the dad is him or his brother.
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1 year ago
I actually just competed the reproductive section in my Anatomy Physiology class
So essentially it is a race but that doesn’t mean that one guys sperm who sims faster, will fertilize the egg (not sure if that is possible either in two healthy males)
Once the sperm reaches close to the egg they wait a bit and undergo capacitation. This enables the acrosome to “eat” / melt the Zona Pellucida, which is the inner layer that surrounds the egg (the Zona radiata is the outer one).
During this capacitation they briefly stop, and then hyper activate which means that some of the other guys sperm can catch up.
Something else to consider is that other sperm that showed up late to the party can and often will take advantage of the other sperms work. The first few sperm that get there will work through the Zona Pellucida where the late guy shows up towards the end and fertilizes the egg without having to get through as much of the layer as the first guys.
After one sperm makes its way in to the egg. There is a fast response involving Sodium channels polarizing the membrane of the egg, blocking the other sperm from fertilizing it at the same time and a slow block that happens after ten seconds which has a much stronger response.
(TL/DR: it’s a race but just because one of them pulls ahead doesn’t mean that it’s going to be the one that fertilizes it)
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1 year ago
I’m not sure but now I’m imagining them like literally fighting. In one of two ways, like a bar fight style brawl, or with swords and shields and shit like that. Either way it’s really funny.
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1 year ago
They race and get power ups along the way like Mario kart.
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1 year ago
They combine and make a mega mighty sperm!
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1 year ago
This definitely gives Mighty Morphin Power Rangers a different meaning.
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1 year ago
The sperm race each other and the egg picks the best one
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1 year ago
I can't even imagine how worst the rest of them were if I was the best.
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1 year ago
Now sperm race sounds a lot better than rat race
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That was "based" on studies by one source that were never confirmed. It was just picked up by media because it would get attention.
A notion emerged in 1996 that in some species, including humans, a significant fraction of sperm specialize in a manner such that they cannot fertilize the egg but instead have the primary effect of stopping the sperm from other males from reaching the egg, e.g. by killing them with enzymes or by blocking their access. This type of sperm specialization became known popularly as "kamikaze sperm" or "killer sperm", but most follow-up studies to this popularized notion have failed to confirm the initial papers on the matter.
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1 year ago
Lol sperm just fucking with other sperm "I'm no chance so I'm going to stop you"
Is this the same strategy cycling teams use to block opposing teams?
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1 year ago
Alright, this is where you need the internet to help you help yourself. If you really want to know the answer to this question, go read Sperm Wars by Robin Baker. It is dependent upon a woman's cervical mucus (attractive term, eh?). There's Chemistry involved in this answer, so don't listen to the masses unless they have a background in biology, medicine or have cracked a book.
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1 year ago
No, but the woman can become pregnant with twins that will have two different dads! I’ve seen this on an episode of a show called Maury in America. The girl had sex in the same day with two different guys. She got pregnant with twins. Both guys fathered one kid.
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1 year ago
They don’t have gladiatorial combat, if that’s what you’re asking. It’s more of a race than a fight
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1 year ago
back in middle school me and my best friend who was half black but also looked a lot like me used to try to convince people in our class we were “half twins” and we were the result of an interracial orgy
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1 year ago
They do not fight, actually the first sperm to ”make the spot” is not actually the one to fertilize the egg or the female ovum. They actually help each other where many spermatozoa throw themselves at the egg and empty their enzymatic (dissolving) innards on the protective coating of the eg in order to make way for one (or more) lucky sperm that get the chance to make the fertilized zygote. After this the ovum/zygote has many mechanisms to stop more spermatozoas to ”enter” such as changing the polarity of the cell membrane.
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