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What is the name of the cell that results from the union of sperm and the ovum?
Fertilization is the short answer. This process results in a fertilized egg known as a zygote.
What is the name giving to the male reproductive cell that fertilises the ovum?
The male reproductive cell that fertilizes the ovum is called a sperm cell.
Why only one sperm cell can fertilized an ovum?
Ovum has a layer of zona pellucida around itself. When a sperm enters the ovum, the cortical granules present in the ovum, causes the thickening of the zona pellucida. This prevents the entry of other sperms in the ovum and only one sperm is able to fertilize the egg.
What a sperm cell of ovum is called?
There's no such thing. The sperm cell comes from a boy. Ovum is another word for egg cell which is in a girl. When a sperm cell finds an "ovum" it fertilizes it and it travels to the uterus to develop eventually into a baby.
How much larger than a sperm cell is an ovum?
An ovum is typically around 80 times larger than a sperm cell. This size discrepancy is due to the differences in function and composition of the two cells, with the ovum containing the necessary components to support early embryonic development.
The union of the ovum and the sperm is called what?
The union of the sperm and egg cell is caller fertilizationUnion of the egg and sperm cells is called fertilization. The egg then plants itself on the uterin wall. The two sets of DNA combine, then start replicating and dividing to make a baby.
What is the contrubution of the ovum and sperm to the zygote?
Their union forms the zygote.
Is a zygote dibloid or haploid?
A zygote is diploid, it is formed by the union of a male sex cell (a sperm) and a female sex cell (an ovum) both of which are haploid.
Are sperm and ovum single cells?
Yes, in the singular they are. However, sperm cells are usually present in the tens of thousands, whereas there are usually only one ovum cell. That being said, each individual sperm cell is a separate cell.
What is the cell division that take place in the sperm and ovum?
Meiosis.
Is the female reproductive cell called sperm?
No, it is called an ovum.
What is the uniting of an ovum and sperm cell?
The uniting of an egg and sperm cell is called unification
