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by gus_massa 1932 days ago
> Is a sperm cell alive?

The unfertilized eggs of bees become drones, so they must be alive. As a side effect, this indirectly make bee-like insects evolve a lifestyle with a big colony with a queen.

In fungus, most of the life is as haploid (i.e. a single copy of the chromosomes, like sperm and eggs) instead of diploids (i.e. two copies of each chromosomes, like most of our cells.)

In some ¿unicellular organism? [I can't find a good link now] the haploid and diploid versions are almost equal.

[And plants are also weird, some have 4 or 6 copies of the chromosomes instead of 2.]