HSS 2121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Chemical Bond, Female Reproductive System, Vestment
26 Jan 2017
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The egg and the sperm: how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical. Culture shapes how biological scientists describe what they discover about the natural world. Gender stereotypes hidden within the scientific language of biology. For women, the monthly cycle is described to produce eggs and prepare a suitable place for them to be fertilized and grown all to the end of making babies: but the enthusiasm ends there. Male reproductive physiology is evaluated quite differently. Female equivalent to spermatogenesis, is ovulation: ovulation does not merit the same enthusiasm either; textbooks stress that ovarian follicles containing ova are already present at birth. Males waste more than one trillion sperm for every baby he produces. Egg will die within hours unless rescued by a sperm stresses the fragility and dependency of the egg. Pictures of a huge egg and a small sperm was photographed and titled a portrait of the.
