{"id":6987,"date":"2021-12-17T20:58:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T20:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/givelegacy.com\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2023-06-14T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:51:39","slug":"what-is-sperm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/resources\/what-is-sperm\/","title":{"rendered":"What is sperm?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sperm is a sex cell or \u201cgamete.\u201d Sperm cells carry half of the chromosomes, or genetic information, for the potential offspring. When a sperm cell fertilizes an egg, they join chromosomes, making an organism with a unique genetic combination. This is why you inherit some traits from each of your parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sperm cells are approximately 0.05 milliliters long (about 0.002 inches). They\u2019re not visible to the naked eye, but using a microscope, we can see the structure of sperm. They have a few distinct parts: the head, which contains the nucleus where genetic material is carried; a midpiece; and a tail, which propels it for swimming and helps breach the egg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more in our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/givelegacy.com\/what-is-sperm\/\">sperm overview<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sperm is a sex cell or \u201cgamete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"Sperm is a sex cell or \u201cgamete.\u201d Sperm cells carry half of the chromosomes, or genetic information, for the potential offspring.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dashboard-content","tag-dashboard-homepage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17570,"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions\/17570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.givelegacy.com\/vnext\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}