Thursday, November 18, 2010

How big are your little guys?

The animal with the largest sperm to body ratio is the fruit fly, Drosophila bifurca.  It is 20x bigger than the flies' body.  If a man were to make sperm that big it would be as long as a blue whale.

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  1. How does the fruit fly hold this sperm if it is 20X larger than its body?

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