On 10 Sep 2001, at 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>But the genes in mitochondria can have their own agenda. Especially
>if they find themselves in males. Remember that being a sperm
>mitochondria is a dead end. You don't make into the embryo.

Myth.

Some, as much as a third of the 60-100 mitochondria within sperm 
make it into the egg. However, the egg has thousands of 
mitochondria.

Andy
Dawn Falcon

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