Fertilisation Flashcards

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What is the name of the Female Gamete?

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Egg.
Produced in ovaries.

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What does the Egg do in Fertilisation?

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An egg is larger than a system because it has a store of food in its cytoplasm to allow it to complete its long journey down the oviduct.
Its nucleus has 23 chromosomes (haploid cell).

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What is the name of the Male Gamete?

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Sperm.
Produces in Testes.

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What does the Sperm do in fertilisation?

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A sperm consist of a head region containing 23 chromosomes (haploid cell) and a tail which enables it to swim to the egg to fertilise it.

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What is Fertilisation?

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The fusion of the nuclei of the two haploid gametes to produce a diploid zygote, which discuses to form an embryo.

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