Sperm

New Reproductive technologies have opened a world of possibilities for having children, creating families, and creating bonds that are deeper than genetics. In particular, surrogacy is the most efficient and effective reproductive technology when trying to accomplish this. In this paper, I will argue that surrogacy redefines the definition of family in a positive light. Surrogacy is changing the world we live in for the better by creating bonds between human beings based on relationships,…

Captain Horatio Dobbs and his whaling ship Princess a scouring the Pacific Ocean in search of the elusive Sperm Whale, his crew has been on a fruitless voyage for several months, not a whale in sight the reserves are running low and the ship has to make port to restock on rations. Suddenly, out of the vast blue expanse, an explosion of water, the Princess had stumbled upon a pod of Pacific Sperm Whales within minutes the small whaling boats a launched leaving only a skeleton crew on the…

humans in terms of general intelligence (Reiss & Marino, 2001). Modern cetacean brains are among the largest of all mammals in terms of both general size and in relation to body size, with the largest brain in the animal kingdom being possessed by the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) (Marino, 2004) with a mass of 60% larger than that of an elephant (Marino et al., 2007). It is unsurprising that encephilization (a measure of the size of the brain relative to the body) is commonly linked to…

become the beginning of nightmare to children at the same time. Surrogacy has been a thorny issue. It should not be encouraged. There are two forms of surrogacy. In traditional, surrogate mother would use her own egg along with intended father’s sperm. The process is accomplished through artificial insemination. Therefore, surrogate mother is the genetic mother of the resulting baby. In gestational, only being the carrier of…

Whether Moby-Dick is a whale or a fish is a trifling matter—what is significant about it is that it is a great “white” whale. The color white is usually connected to innocence and purity; however, in “Moby-Dick”, the quintessentially white sperm whale defies the qualities attached to its color as Ahab sees it as the archetypal evil. In a novel overwhelmingly about whaling, Melville frequently explores colors and their meanings and use them to paint a picture of characters and sceneries in the…

the X-sperm contains more DNA than the Y-sperm. Although this difference is small, it is possible to measure DNA content of individual sperm with sufficient accuracy to distinguish between X- and Y-sperm with about 90% accuracy for 50% of the sperm. Therefore, about half of the sperm are discarded as unsexable. The DNA content of sperm is determined using a fluorescing dye, Hoechst 33342 that readily penetrates the sperm cell membrane and binds to the DNA stoichiometrically. Thus, X-sperm ends…

telling the story in a way that was honoring to the whales, even as you see all these horrible things being done to them, “The rope began to cut into the whale’s flesh (71)” as they tried to move it, “scientists used chainsaws to cut the lower jaws off sperm whales that had died only a few feet from whales that were not yet dead (72).” They story easily could have been told from a scientist’s point of view, or a city official’s point of view in a much colder tone. This essay set the perfect…

2 Assignment #2 Harmanjot Kaur T00576217 Yaying Zhang ENG 1100_04 Critical Summary “The Egg and the Sperm” by Emily Martin focuses particularly on the stereotype male and female roles in the society. The writer also looks at the biological processes of both genders and relates it with the evident of today’s world stating that these gender roles and stereotypes are extended much more to the outer world than just to biological human processes but the fact cannot be denied that to…

In the town of Kaikoura, New Zealand, a heritage building is located by the Kaikoura Peninsula, known as the Fyffe House. This area is well known for bringing in European settlers around the 1840s due to whaling, and it is the interest in whales that makes it still relevant for people today through the recreation of whale watching. It appears that the Fyffe House is the only physical evidence that reflects the time of European settlement in this region. Therefore, it should be explored how the…

As of 2013 more than eighty six percent of adults say they already have children, are planning to have children, or wish to have children yet one in every four couples suffer from infertility. Infertility may be due to a single cause in either you or your partner’s reproductive system, or a combination of both that may prevent pregnancy from occurring. Fortunately there are many therapies and treatments for overcoming infertility. One of the most controversial solutions is Surrogacy. Now for…