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From: lesley@UNIXG.UBC.CA (Lesley Weston)
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Subject: Re: Are Sperm Alive?
Date: 4 Jan 1997 08:06:22 -0800
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If we were ferns, then sperm and ova would be our haploid prothallus 
stage: an entirely different creature from the diploid sporophyte generation.
 But we're not ferns, so I guess sperm are just one form of differentiated 
cells among many.
Lesley.


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