Choose the main pattern of organization of the passage. The…
Choose the main pattern of organization of the passage. The biological significance of a single sperm is very different from that of a single egg. For healthy men, sperm is a “renewable resource” produced by the testes throughout most of the life course. A man releases hundreds of millions of sperm in a single ejaculation, technically enough to fertilize every woman in North America. However, a newborn girl’s ovaries contain her entire lifetime allotment of immature eggs. A woman releases a single egg from the ovaries every month. Whereas men are biologically capable of fathering thousands of offspring, a woman is able to bear a much smaller number of children.