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Having a separate identity is to be distinguished from identifiability and capability to be traced. The point is that the sperm is no longer a whole but has become part of a whole.
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Prior to the release of the contents of the sperm into the ovum and the interaction of the contents, there is a marked lack of precision. However, it is clear that once the contents of a single sperm have been released and commenced interaction with the contents of the ovum there is remarkable precision and the latter is excellent evidence of the organization which has come into existence. From that stage on events are predictable and the failure to develop further appears as a defect in an organized process rather than simply a result of a random or chance set of occurrences. Until that organization comes into existence, many chance factors are at work, as is shown for instance by the number of sperm that have entered the zona pellucida before one becomes the first to work its way through to the cell-membrane and attach itself to it.
