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From: sidlip@lip.microserve.com (Sid Lipkin)
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Subject: Are Sperm Alive?
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 03:27:20 GMT
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Always wondered this...Is human sperm classed as a living creature?
  Is there a genus of animals that it belongs to?  Can sperm survive
  outside the human body(in a lab setting)?

   What about anti-bodies?  are they Alive in the sense that we define life?
     They have a purpose and act according to certain criteria?  is this life?

  Sorry if this is uneducated...just curious


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