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another of life's little curiosities:
aka paternal mitochondria elimination(PME):
Sperm has its own mitochondria
It seems that
should it be quick and lucky enough to find and enter an egg
via cps6 (which it also carries) the paternal(male) mitochondria will be eliminated
should the paternal cps6 be defective, missing, or insufficient to eliminate the male mitochondria(usually before the 64 cell stage), the female(maternal) provided cps6 will attempt the job of paternal mitochondria elimination
should that fail
the woman's body will just reject the egg and try again next month
with me so far?
accurate?
ok
(here's the question)
Why?
......................................
and
why does a woman's body refuse to carry a zygote with paternal mitochondria?
would we have evolved differently if that was different?
aka paternal mitochondria elimination(PME):
Sperm has its own mitochondria
It seems that
should it be quick and lucky enough to find and enter an egg
via cps6 (which it also carries) the paternal(male) mitochondria will be eliminated
should the paternal cps6 be defective, missing, or insufficient to eliminate the male mitochondria(usually before the 64 cell stage), the female(maternal) provided cps6 will attempt the job of paternal mitochondria elimination
should that fail
the woman's body will just reject the egg and try again next month
with me so far?
accurate?
ok
(here's the question)
Why?
......................................
and
why does a woman's body refuse to carry a zygote with paternal mitochondria?
would we have evolved differently if that was different?
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