BIO380H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Basal Body, Spermatocyte, Disulfide
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Ex: physiological differentiation of rbcs- for example: how much oxygen it bound to the hemoglobin. Gene activity is central to cell differentiation. Sertoli cells take up extra cytoplasm from the spermatocyte. Acrosome includes acrosin which is a digestive enzyme. Sperm egg recognition happens on two levels: 1. Sperm has a basic idea about where the egg is so it knows where to go. When the sperm and egg come into contact, the sperm recognizes the egg as the target object. Nucleus elongation makes the sperm more streamlined. The goal is to make sperm as compact as possible so protamines are a better choice for packaging dna in sperm. Once fertilization occurs, dna has to be unwound so that gene expression can happen in the developing zygote. The histones that are used in the transition must come from the oocyte. Chromatin remodelling factors also come from the oocyte.
