More Amazing: Egg vs. Sperm

[Kevo214]

I recently got into a debate with a friend of mine over what's more biologically amazing the egg or the sperm. I know that one is useless without the other; however, I did argue that the sperm is amazing because of how it evolved into this perfect chromosome delivery system able to travel relatively extremely large distances and do so efficiently. So I'm here to ask what everyone thinks and why. At the low point of my debate I ended up countering with "All the egg does is drop down from it's place, even my turd does that". It'd be nice to have some other peoples opinions

[Darby]

If you're looking for the other side (and the whole idea of a competition on this is pretty silly), you've got an egg cell that draws the sperm in, is set up to allow one and only one sperm nucleus in, holds a mixture of nutrients and cellular components that supports the growth and development of a whole new multi-celled individual, against a simple mobile cell that does not on its own move all that far, following basic chemical cues to do a not-very-complicated job.

[kotoreru]

Hmm, indeed. Egg for the win - just look at the wastage produced during oogenesis and limited numbers they are produced in!

[mith]

I'm a guy, so I'm going to be biased .