Is Human Reproduction Oogamous?

Oogamy: in humans and mammals, one of the gametes, male gamete or sperm, is motile and the other gamete, egg, or female gamete is non-motile. This condition is known as oogamy, wherein a large non-motile egg is fertilized or will fuse with a small and motile sperm to form the zygote.

Are humans Isogamous?

Biologically, males are defined as the sex that produces the smaller gametes (e.g. sperm), implying that the male and female sexes only exist in species with gamete dimorphism (anisogamy). Our ancestors were isogamous, meaning that only one gamete size was produced.

What is anisogamy and examples?

Answer: The fusing gametes are different in form, size structure and behaviour as in frog and humans. Such gametes are known as anisogametes, or heterogametes, and their fusion is termed anisogamy, or heterogamy. e.g., Plasmodium, vertebrates.