The roundworm—Caenorhabditis elegans—is the perfect model for scientists because it is hermaphrodite, so it produces both ...

Egg cells are the largest single cells on the planet ... molecules can travel across the cell in 20 minutes instead of 20 hours. "The model showed the system has an incredible capacity for ...

If you're male, your body uses meiosis to create sperm cells; if you're female, it uses meiosis to create egg cells. Others cells in your body contain 46 chromosomes: 23 from your father and 23 ...