Sperm and the Egg

The sperm and the egg life span

Patricia Gay

PSY/265

October 16, 2011

Sharon Belden

The sperm and the egg life span

Let me tell you a scenario about Donnie the sperm and Patty the egg. Today is a very important time for Donnie and Patty because this is the day that they are getting fertilized. Fertilization is the point that the sperm and the egg becomes one and a new person is created. Patty the egg has been thinking about this for this moment for the last 28 years ever since her eggs were developed, along with a lot other eggs, but she was the egg that chosen today! Donnie the sperm feels like that he is the king because he is the one out of a lot sperms to be ejaculated today that will get the chance to fertilize Patty the egg.

Donnie’s life began in the seminiferous tubules, also known as the Testes. The testes are where the sperm is being matured for the last two months. Then before the sperm is ejaculated, the sperm moves to the epididymis, where it waits for the magnificent forces that push the sperm through the urethra. In the urethra the sperm is combined with a solution from the prostate gland that contains a substance that facilitates the sperms long journey to the female’s ovum, or also known as Patty the egg.

First, Donnie the sperm and the prostate solution with great force that is caused by the pressure from the muscles of pelvic. “Then they are followed by a sugar-containing fluid from the seminal vesicles (glands emptying into the vas deferens)” (Aimee Zak, 2008). At this point is where Donnie the sperm exits the penis and enters the vagina and this is where Donnie the sperm’s journey of fertilization begins.

When it comes the life of Patty the egg, her life span is much longer than of Donnie the sperm. Patty the egg was being formed, while she was a fetus. Patty has a one to five million chance of getting fertilized today. “A women’s body ovulate about four hundred times in their lifetime” (Aimee Zak, 2008). The...