Zach Undergoes a Sperm Analysis and Is Upset to Learn

question 38

Multiple Choice

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

• A) he has a sexually transmitted disease.
• B) he has cancer of the spermatogonia, and his sperm will never mature.
• C) he makes too many sperm, and they will crowd and kill each other.
• D) he makes too few sperm, lowering the probability of one sperm successfully reaching and fertilizing an oocyte.
• E) 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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