To: XBob
The gametes (sex cells) are called diploids, because they each have half the number of chromosomes of a typical somatic cell of the body of origin. These gametes are extremely differentiated from their origin, their original totipotent age. Every alive cell in your body has been derived from less differentiated cells at some age along the continuum of your lifetime begun at coneption. [Would you read the essay, Bob?]
109 posted on
06/18/2003 8:12:24 PM PDT by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: MHGinTN
read which essay?
116 posted on
06/18/2003 8:33:30 PM PDT by
XBob
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