[electmobile]

A body part, like a finger or a tooth.

[Zhgrlpil]

Voted.

[K0aM7urg]

That looks more like a bird.

[Dapnoinaacale]

A parasite.

Be fair. That applies to all children.

[Chooriwrocaey]

Abortion

[lalpphilalk]

That looks more like a bird.

It's clearly a human fetus head attached to a bird's body.

[Ruiceara]

I'd answer differently depending on how far into term it is.

I was thinking the same thing. This poll is flawed because of lack of time frame references in fetal development.

[kaysions]

Sausage and eggs, all in one. Yummy.

[Tilmbeinymn]

it's not a child, it's human though.
Every human once was a fetus. In fact there are more humans that have been a fetus then a toddler.
It's a parasite in some way. it's paraciting on the mother. It's just not a biological paracite. that's just how nature works for mammals. First you paracite on your mother, then later she paracites on you

So the answer is: it's a human being in the stadium of a fetus.
But that answer is not in the list.

[tefraxKedWere]

In your opinion. I don't consider it a Human being early in the pregnancy. But again, that is just my opinion.

That's weird, it's a human being in it's earliest form. It's not a matter of opinions. What is an opinion is if one's allowed to abort it or not.
Some just do not want to name it a human being b/c then suddenly it's awkward to allow abortion.

[SAUNDERSAN]

"Tasty on toast with a side of applesauce" should have been a poll option.

[Argurnenoni]

I enjoy the taste of chicken fetuses.

[WhonyGataxott]

"Tasty on toast with a side of applesauce" should have been a poll option.

Poutine with fetus gravy is better, not to mention fetus lovers pizza with double cheese

[gomosopions]

I have always known you had donkey balls...

Maybe you should go back to your biology lessons in kindergarten

[55Beaphable]

What species is it then?

Please learn what meiosis is. Sperm only has 23 chromosomes. Hence, not strictly "human". It's not particularly useful to assign a "species" to it, since it is a reproductive cell.

You're basically asking the same question as "what species is an unfertilized chicken egg?" It's not a chicken, it hasn't been fertilized.

[opelayday]

Please learn what meiosis is. Sperm only has 23 chromosomes. Hence, not strictly "human". It's not particularly useful to assign a "species" to it, since it is a reproductive cell.

You're basically asking the same question as "what species is an unfertilized chicken egg?" It's not a chicken, it hasn't been fertilized.

You're not human if you have the wrong number of chromosomes? So you wouldn't object to killing people with, say, Trisomy 21? You Nazi.

[Uzezqelj]

I don't pretend to be a biology expert. I ****ing hated biology. The only good thing about that whole class was the gel electrophoresis* lab, even though nobody fully understood it. But for god's sake gribbler, are you going to make me explain the difference between trisomy and gametes?

One has only half the genome and cannot replicate, the other simply has a mutation.

*this sounds complicated and sophisticated but I swear you basically just play with expensive jello and pipettes

[Wetekemieluth]

You will not find a single reputable reference that defines the embryo or fetus as a distinct organism than that of the child that the embryo/fetus may eventually develop into - rather, the embryo/fetus is the child that it will may eventually develop into. Example 1. Example 2. Example 3. Example 4. Likewise a gamete is a human cell but is not a human being for much the same reason that a red blood cell is a human cell but is not a human being. Example. You may call the embryo/fetus a parasitic organism if you like, but it is a human parasitic organism - it is a human organism at the start of its life cycle. The gametes are not human organisms, they are human cells. Humans with trisonomy are humans with a mutation/birth defect because they are organisms; if you could mutate a sperm that could survive on its own then you'd have a sperm that was also an organism (and then we could debate whether or not it was a human organism), so good luck with that, but until you do so gametes are not distinct organisms any more than red blood cells are distinct organisms.

[TSVIDeo]

It was pretty fun, actually. It was one of the only real labs we did in biology. It sounds really impressive, but I was surprised to find out that paternity tests and DNA comparisons are such a simple process. The point of the exercise was analyzing the differentiated DNA but the only part anyone cared about was making the agarose gel

[JetePlentuara]

It's true that gametes (sperm and ova) are missing a bunch of chromosomes since that's the nature of meiosis, but their missing chromosomes are not the reason that they're not human beings - they're not human beings because they're not viable. If the missing chromosomes were the only reason they weren't human beings then white blood cells would be human beings (since they have all of the necessary chromosomes), and that would be silly.