{"id":9135,"date":"2019-05-22T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spermatozoa\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:46:36","slug":"spermatozoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spermatozoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Spermatozoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mature male gametes produced by the testis and consisting of a head containing a haploid nucleus and an macro dome allowing sperm to penetrate the egg at fertilisation, a middle part containing mitochondria to generate the energy for movement, and a tail piece of locomotory flagella to drive the sperm forward.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"acrosome\">Acrosome<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fertilization_-or_syngamy\/?preview_id=7950&amp;preview_nonce=6a87f47a0a&amp;preview=true\">Fertilization (or syngamy)<\/a>, <a href=\"flagella\">Flagella<\/a>, <a href=\"gametes\">Gametes<\/a>, <a href=\"haploid\">Haploid<\/a>, <a href=\"mitochondria\">Mitochondria<\/a>, <a href=\"oocytes\">Oocytes<\/a>, <a href=\"sex\">Sex<\/a>, <a href=\"sex_chromosomes\">Sex chromosomes<\/a>, <a href=\"sex_ratio\">Sex ratio<\/a>, <a href=\"spermatogonia\">Spermatogonia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mature male gametes produced by the testis and consisting of a head containing a haploid nucleus and an macro dome allowing sperm to penetrate the egg at fertilisation, a middle part containing mitochondria to generate the energy for movement, and a tail piece of locomotory flagella to drive the sperm forward. See Acrosome, Fertilization (or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spermatozoa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spermatozoa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9604,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}