Zach Undergoes a Sperm Analysis and Is Upset to Learn

question 35

Multiple Choice

Zach undergoes a sperm analysis and is upset to learn that he has oligospermia.This means that

• A)he has cancer of the spermatogonia,and his sperm will never mature.
• B)he makes too many sperm,and they will crowd and kill each other.
• C)he makes too few sperm,lowering the probability of one sperm successfully reaching and fertilizing an oocyte.
• D)his sperm have two heads,each of which contains an entire genome of DNA,making them too heavy to swim to an oocyte.

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