I was born in the testicle along with millions of other sperm. We each have one goal to create a human child. There is one problem. To create a human child we need an egg. An egg is found in a female human. I am in male human who calls himself Mark. Mark is 31 year old male who has been married a female human named Faith for awhile now. I am hoping that they will want to have a child soon. One day Mark and Faith decided that today was the day. They wanted to have a child. Finally! The day I had been waiting for. I could finally meet the egg I had been searching for my entire life. I would be able to meet her when Mark and Faith had vaginal intercourse. Which I have heard other sperm talking about it is when a penis is inserted into the vagina. …show more content…
This is where I start to grow up. I become so different! I start to grow a tail. I loose the outer layer that has surrounded me my entire life. I can move and swim around. I feel to free. I barely even recognize my old self. I race into the vas deferens.They must be having vaginal intercourse. It is almost time! Next we swim through the seminal vesicles. In here me and the others find a substance that I think is called semen or seminal fluid. In the prostate gland more of the semen is being produced here. There is more being produced here in the prostate gland than in the seminal vesicles. This journey is getting weirder by the hour. I am seeing new substances what’s next? The end is almost in sight! I am in the urethra. We will be ejacuted by the the urthea into the vagian. I don’t even slow down to look around in the urethra. I go straight to the penis.The penis right now is erected right now.This means ejacultion is right around the corner.Suddenly without even knowing it I am ejaculated into the …show more content…
I make small talk with the other sperm.Saying the same things over and over. “How are you.” “What is going on.” “Do you think the egg is coming soon.”It gets more repetitive by the hour.Nothing seems to satisfy the overwhelming boringness of this. Then after what feels like a million years an egg finally appears. She is beautiful and everything I hoped for. She is surrounded by this wall that protects her. Other sperm are trying to break it down. I swim up there quickly hoping to get inside the wall. I touch the wall for no longer than a couple minutes and I am immediately let in. I must be the one! I kept repeating this inside my head over and over. I hear sperm on the outside saying “No fair” and “How did he get in so fast.” I inside and I hear a voice talking to me. It must the egg. The eggs says “Hello is someone in here?” I respond quickly and nervously “Yes I am in here.” “Ok what is your name? My name is Elanna.” she says in a calm soothing voice. “My name is Sergio.Nice to meet you.” From there we start to learn more about each other. I first tell her my story about how I got here. I may have over exaggerated to impress her but she doesn’t need to know that. While I am telling her my story I start to fertilize her turning us into a zygote. Elanna starts telling her story now. She first was born in the ovaries. She said she was first born when the human was born. She had spent years in the ovaries. She said it was kinda of like sperms waiting
The article was mainly about how an egg reproduces with a sperm to create new individuals. The article also discussed how at one time the sperm and egg were the same. Over time, the sperm and egg have evolved to be different. The article mentions the challenges with the sperm being able to reach the egg. There is also a discussion about how the protein affects the reproduction and a discussion on reproductive failure.
Martin, Emily. "The Egg and the Sperm." Fields of Reading. 6th ed. Ed. Nancy R. Comley et al. New York: St. Martin's, 2001.
What is interesting is that the sperm is viewed as being strong compared to the eggs of a female. The egg is viewed as something that is weak and doesn't do much to achieve the process of fertilization. When a women egg doesn't become fertilized it is looked as being a "failure" and is perceived in a negative way. Martin writes about how menstruation is viewed in biology. She writes "...menstruation must necessarily be viewed as a failure" (Martin,486). Mensuration is viewed negatively because of the woman's failure to conceive a child. Whereas the male reproductive system is praised because it creates millions of sperm a day (Martin,486). The different perceptive allow one to see that the enthusiasm is not the same when talking about both the woman's and man's reproductive system because a woman can either conceive or shed "waste" according to
The addition of a child into a family’s home is a happy occasion. Unfortunately, some families are unable to have a child due to unforeseen problems, and they must pursue other means than natural pregnancy. Some couples adopt and other couples follow a different path; they utilize in vitro fertilization or surrogate motherhood. The process is complicated, unreliable, but ultimately can give the parents the gift of a child they otherwise could not have had. At the same time, as the process becomes more and more advanced and scientists are able to predict the outcome of the technique, the choice of what child is born is placed in the hands of the parents. Instead of waiting to see if the child had the mother’s eyes, the father’s hair or Grandma’s heart problem, the parents and doctors can select the best eggs and the best sperm to create the perfect child. Many see the rise of in vitro fertilization as the second coming of the Eugenics movement of the 19th and early 20th century. A process that is able to bring joy to so many parents is also seen as deciding who is able to reproduce and what child is worthy of birthing.
Test tube babies have long been stigmatized by society as the unnatural results of scientific dabbling. The words `test tube baby' have been used by school children as an insult, and many adults have seen an artificial means of giving birth as something perhaps only necessary for a lesbian woman, or a luxury item only available to the elite few. The reality is that assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have been helping infertile couples have children since 1978.1 The methods of in vitro fertilization, it's variants, and the other ART procedures are ways for persons that would otherwise have no hope of conception to conceive and, in a rapidly growing percentage of cases, give birth to healthy babies. As the technology has developed, the quality and range of assistance has developed as well. At present, the means of assisted reproduction and the capabilities of these procedures has grown at a somewhat dizzying pace. However, thought to the repercussions of the applications of ART are being disregarded to some extent while the public's knowledge and the understanding of embryologists and geneticists surges forward. It is possible given consideration to things such as the morality of these techniques, the unexplored alternative uses of these procedures, and the potential impact they posses that further development is unnecessary and possibly dangerous.
Aldous Huxley’s dystopian Brave New World is more than a warning against the dangers of technology; it is a prediction for the future that rings eerily true. Today we understand that many of the fantastical devices and practices imagined by Huxley are coming to life. Most notable is the practice of in vitro fertilization, something that was a mad scientist’s dream during Huxley’s time, and is today a commonplace practice. According to the National Institutes of Health, in vitro fertilization is “the joining of a woman’s egg and a man’s sperm in a laboratory dish” (Storck). The procedure was first performed successfully in 1978 and has since become widely used today by couples that desire a child and are unable to conceive by “natural” means.
Reproduction is fundamental for the perpetuation of a species and therefore is a trait all species possess. Human reproduction is usually not viewed in this context. Extinction of humans is not considered a threat, but the ability to reproduce is an issue of meeting social expectations. Psychologist Dr. Helen Fisher states that society tends to pressure women into feeling that motherhood is their sole connection to being female (Rutter, 1996). Likewise, men are influenced by society into feeling that they need to perform their part by "planting the seed" (Rutter, 1996). Fisher's insight may only represent parts of the reason humans feel the need to reproduce. However, it is evident that the ability to conceive a child is an important issue for most married couples. Unfortunately, complications occur when couples are infertile. Recent developments in reproductive technology have provided alternative methods of reproduction that can greatly enhance an infertile couple's chances of conceiving. However, there are ethical and legal issues that accompany the use of these reproductive technologies. It is the responsibility of everyone, especially Christians, to become informed of the options reproductive technology can provide as well as the legal and ethical issues involved with their use before taking appropriate action.
The merger of two germinal cells, one being a sperm cell and the other being an egg cell, is complete within twelve hours, at which time the egg is fertilized and becomes a zygote containing forty six chromosomes required to create a new human life. It is during this remarkable process when conception occurs. Conception confirms life and makes that undeveloped human one of a kind (Rorvik & Shettles, 1983, p. 16). Many researchers, as well as scientists, identify the first moments of life as the instant when a sperm cell unites with an ovum, o...
In Vitro Fertilization is a fertility procedure in which medical physicians remove eggs from the ovaries of a female, fertilize them in a laboratory, and then replace the embryos back into the female’s uterus where they implant and mature. In Vitro literally mean “in glass” meaning the Petri dishes that the eggs are placed into for fertilization. This procedure first came into place in England about 25 years ago by the late Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards. The first successfully delivered baby through IVF is Louise Brown on July 25, 1978. She is considered the world’s first “test tube baby.” IVF was introduced, as a means to assist couples who were not successful in becoming pregnant. It has proven to be a successful means of having child for those couples who had ovulation disorders, unexplained fertility, endometriosis, and male factor problems. The IVF procedure is responsible for the birth of more than 500,000 healthy children around the world. While it may seem that IVF is the answer there are risks involved in this miracle procedure. It can be a psychologically stressful time for the parents to be especially if they are unsuccessful. This procedure is also not guaranteed to end in a successful pregnancy. There are instances in which there is a risk of abnormal pregnancy, miscarriage, or premature delivery. Couples who decided to partake in this procedure are counseled in making sure that they understand the risks involved and the outcomes if one does become pregnant. Throughout this ...
As a young adult, it may seem foolish to predict what your future family life will look like, especially in regards to children. Often times this reality is forced upon a select few, particularly homosexual couples; however, with the innovation of in vitro fertilization (IVF), a couple is met with promise and the hope of a successful family life. IVF can be described as a process by which a fetus is genetically formed in a laboratory setting. Though this process may seem unnatural in essence, it allows for a more diverse family arrangement through medical innovation. This procedure, though controversial, is seen by many as an advancement in the medical field and can be accredited to procuring a healthy child for an unfortunate family, whether
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Most people believe it takes a strong sperm to make it through to the egg. I will be honest this is what I believed too until I watched this video. In fact, I am pretty sure I have even heard it called the “winning sperm.” Going against the popular belief, it is actually the women that decides when the sperm and egg will come together. One teaspoon of male ejaculation contains 300 million sperm, but the vagina is acidic making it impossible for all of them to survive. Success by a single sperm is determined by the women and only during a couple days of every month. I liked this part of the video because I could not help but to think “Yeah girl power!” Anyways, women are able to control when the sperm is successful through the process of ovulation. Ovulation clears out some of the mucus in the vagina which allows it to guide the sperm through to the egg. Even with this assistance, it ends up being a two day swim for the sperm. One thing the video taught me about this is that the fastest sperm is not necessarily the one that gets fertilized with the egg because it sometimes gets there too fast and the egg is not ready yet. This is another misconception I had heard about as well. I always thought the “winning sperm” was the fastest sperm. This video explained this well by telling the audience that the fastest sperm sometimes beats the egg and so it cannot
Two-thirds of children who participate in extracurricular activities are expected to attain at least a bachelor’s degree, whereas only half of children that do not participate do (National Center for Education Statistics, 1995). Childhood is a very important time in our lives, a time when we develop many vital skills that follow us into adulthood. Some people laugh or scoff at us parents that keep our children to busy schedules. Those same people would also argue that our children should be allowed to have a childhood, to not be so tightly scheduled in their daily lives. Before jumping on that bandwagon, I would suggest doing a little research. Participating in after-school activities has shown to benefit children in many ways. Children should
Those who have arrived at the ovum try to drill through its shell. Those sperm cells that were able to drill through the shell are now in a space that is filled with liquid. If a sperm manages to penetrate into the cytoplasm of the cell nucleus, the fertilization takes place: Both the egg cell and the sperm cell have all stored the genetic information necessary for the development of a human being. Both fuse together during fertilization. Essential characteristics of the developing human being (gender, hair color, blood type, etc.) are therefore already defined from this point in time. Fusing of two sperm with just one egg is extremely unlikely. Immediately after fertilization by the first sperm cell, the outer layer of the “egg” becomes impassable for more sperm. Should it nevertheless occur, then the double-fertilized egg in these cases is not viable and will not usually grow. The child (so to say) is not able to correctly develop and severe disabilities can form, in most of these cases the body will discard the fertilized egg at some point. If the child is carried to full term they will most likely be triploid, and have an extra set of chromosomes in their cells. Triploidy is considered a lethal
Babyhood is the time from when you are born till you 're 18 months old. Like everybody else, I don 't remember anything at all from this time. Whatever I do know is from my parents, siblings and other family members. My mother told me I wanted to appear into this world earlier than I should have. If not for the medications that let me arrive at the proper time, I may not have been here today writing this very sentence. I was born on 19th December, 1999 in Gujarat, India. My parents tell me I was a very quite baby and never troubled them much at all. I would never start crying in the middle of the night, arousing the entire neighborhood. My older brother would often look at me, and state how huge my eyes looked. As a baby, I was very fair, and often was referred to a white egg. Everyone loved to play and touch my cheeks when I was a baby.