ambar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jean Marie Diaz) (07/23/86)
In article <17764@ucla-cs.ARPA> oleg@ucla-cs.UUCP (Oleg "Kill the bastards" Kiselev) writes: >A QUESTION: Does the genetic information in sperm change over the time, >with the newer sperm having different set of "encodings" than the older >make? No, not in the sense you're thinking of. Remember, sperm (and ova) contain only HALF your chromosomes--and which 'half' it is, is selected pretty randomly. So, one sperm differs from the next, which differs from the next, and so on.... but they're always a subset of YOUR OWN genetic makeup, which was determined at your conception and does not change. -- AMBAR "I need something to change your mind...."