• meco03211@lemmy.world
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    22 天前

    Nope. There are animals with more than two gamete sizes. Egg and sperm are not sizes.

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        22 天前

        Arctic foxes and fruit flies. And before responding, be sure to educate yourself on the difference between what constitutes size and “egg and sperm”. Those are entirely different concepts.

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            22 天前

            You’re confusing size and type. You can have two types with more than two sizes of a thing.

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              Look, I’ll be direct. You are ignorant. You should fix that. This will help:

              “Male” and “female” in biology refer to gamete type (males make relatively small, motile gametes — sperm; females make relatively large, nutrient-rich gametes — eggs). The presence of different sperm sizes or extreme sperm variation in species like Drosophila is variation within the male gamete-producing sex, not a category that removes the fundamental distinction that males produce sperm and females produce eggs.