291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2724.371 - 2754.878 Venki Ramakrishnan

Well, the others are all ruthlessly selected because There's a whole process of selection from the oocyte, the precursor of the egg, all the way to the final egg that ends up ready for fertilization. And at each stage, it's monitored for defects and ruthlessly pruned out. And of course, sperm in males is also ruthlessly selected for, you know, millions of sperm and they all have to swim.