ABSTRACT

Nature operates in a conservative manner. The organism’s existence is dependent upon tightly controlled metabolic pathways that capitalize on this evolutionary conservatism in an effort to maintain the species. Such established cellular pathways that allow the organism/species to thrive, and have been adapted through time, are the hallmark for the species’ existence. The mechanisms that control and govern our most basic yet prized function, reproduction, are also tightly regulated, and share common features among evolutionarily distant species.