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It is hard to say which step happens first in the process of human fertilization. The process leading up to it is usually slow. A man and a woman smile at each other. That is actually the first step. They get to know each other. The process goes on and on. A man grabs hold of a woman. Neither one has clothes on. He puts his penis in her vagina. Both push back and forth. Eventually, with them breathing hard, he ejaculates semen. Sperm work their way out from her vagina, through her uterus into her fallopian tubes. Meanwhile, her ovaries prepare an egg. It has a full set of chromosomes. It loses half of them. Unlike ordinarily cell division, only the nucleus divides. The egg cell ejects the nucleus called a polar body. The ovary ejects the egg. little cilia move the egg to the fallopian tubes. There it meets the sperm. The sperm breaks through the surface of the egg. The surface becomes hard so no more sperm will break through. The sperm swims through the egg until it reaches the nucleus. There it deposits its chromosomes. The chromosomes in the nucleus break apart and then reassemble. At that point the chromosomes of the new individual exist in the form the new person will have them the rest of his or her life.

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