Animal Cell Specialisation

I should be able to: 

• Describe how sperm cells, nerve cells and muscle cells are specialised to carry out their function. 

Animal Cell Specialisation 

• Most animal cells are specialised. 

• They have adaptions which help them carry out their function. 

• When cells become specialised, scientists call that differentiation. 

• The job of a sperm cell is to join with an ovum (egg cell). We call that process fertilisation.  

• During fertilisation, the genetic information of the ovum and the sperm combine. 

Sperm cells 

• Sperm cells contain their genetic information in the nucleus. However, sperm cells only contain half the genetic information…