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.
Pete Rose sits with fiancee, Playboy model Kiana Kim, while signing autographs last July in Cooperstown, N.Y. on Hall of Fame weekend.Randy Miller. A former Cincinnati Reds and Phillies star, Rose's one-night job was his first professional game since he lost his job as Reds manager in 1989.