Germ cells are different from somatic cells in a critical way. Whereas somatic cells are diploid, meaning they have two copies of each chromosome, germ cells are haploid. The haploid nature of germ cells is vital to the process of sexual reproduction. There are two different sex cells or gametes: sperm and eggs. Males produce sperm and females produce eggs.
But rules in baseball are selectively enforced all the timeâjust look at what happened with the pick-up-the-rug-and-repeatedly-sweep steroid debacle. Pete Rose didnât throw games like the Chicago White Sox players did in the 1919 World Series. Rose always tried to win when he managed the Cincinnati Reds.
He played in 2,632 consecutive games from April 30, 1982 to Sept. 19, 1998. Pete Rose, who played for the Cincinnati Reds and then was banned from baseball for life for betting on games while managing the team, holds the all-time record for hits (4,256) and games played (3,562). In 2001, San Francisco's Barry Bonds broke the all-time single-season home run record when he hit 73.