Zhao Zhang
Life’s Greatest Challenges Book One: Ms. Ovum
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( Feb. 25, 2016)
Hi everybody, I’m Ms. Ovum. First of all, let me introduce myself. My full name is Ovum Sex Cell. Sometimes people called me egg cell. My home is located in Ovary; this is a warm and sweet place. Ms. Ovum is a female germ cell and has a responsibility for human reproduction.
Here, I would like to introduce Mr. Sperm very shortly, because Mr. Sperm is the key character in the story of my life. His full name is Sperm Sex Cell, also called male gamete, namely male reproductive cell. His home is located in the male’s testicles known as ‘the land of men’.
The female egg is the body’s largest cell and the male sperm is its smallest. Although egg and sperm cells are sex cells in human body, people seem to understand sperms better. The wise sperms work closely with scientists and voluntarily participate in a variety of scientific studies. So the sperms always show up in movies, magazines, and books. By contrast, the egg cells are sometimes described as ‘difficult communication’. Some scientists complained, “The egg cells act like elves that are hard to capture.”
I say well maybe that’s true; egg cells love to hide inside the sweet and warm Ovaries, usually, only one mature egg, called Ms. Ovum allows leaving Ovary monthly, Ms. Ovum is probably targeted by more than 300 million sperms in each appearance. Scientists have recorded the love stories about sperm and egg cell using the advanced technologies. But these stories are written in the boring experimental data; most people really don’t understand those complex things.
I’m a very brave and wise egg cell, and enjoy the intense competition; also I would like to share those thrilling love stories with all of you. Now I invite you to join us and read the molecular love stories in the cell world, you’ll understand a lot of the molecular and cellular language between cells communicate with each other.
Let Ms. Ovum take you into the mysterious world of human life beginning, it’ll bring you the knowledge and the greatest joy by reading this book.