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Typically, only one sperm fertilizes an ovum to form a zygote. Multiple sperm attempting to fertilize the ovum can lead to abnormalities in the resulting embryo.

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Which is that sperm that fertilize the ovum?

The luckiest of all sperms makes it alive and fuses with the ovum.


What determines if a pregnant women has a male or female?

The sperm can have either X or Y sex chromosome. If the sperm with X chromosome fertilize the ovum, you get female baby. If the sperm with Y chromosome fertilize the ovum, you get male baby. Ovum always has got X chromosome in it.


Is an ovum a diploid or haploid?

ovum isalways haploid and when a haploid sperm fertilize it the embryo become diploid


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.


These small motile gametes fertilize ovum?

Sperm are the small motile gametes that fertilize the ovum (egg) during sexual reproduction in many organisms. They typically have a whip-like tail (flagellum) that helps them swim towards the egg for fertilization to occur.


How many million sperm compete to reach the ovum?

Many can reach the ovum but only one can penetrate and fertilize it.


What is the term for the microscopic cells produced by the males testocles which can fertilize the females ovum?

Sperm


How Is Sperm Cell Fertalized?

Sperm cells fertilize the ovum, they are not fertilized. The primary reason for how the term is used is because most sperm compete to reach and penetrate the egg.


Can sperms fertilize the ovum when the ovum is dead?

No it can not.


How many sperms are needed to fertilized an ovum?

Just one.AnswerIt's like saying it took 1 soldier to kill Hitler in WW2.True, only 1 soldier needs to pull the trigger and Hitler is dead.But can 1 soldier alone conquer Normandy, rest of France, Germany, and breach Berlin?Fertilization is a team effort. Individual sperm does fertilize the ovum, but it takes millions of them in order for that one lucky guy to even reach the ovum.


How many sperm cells can fertilise a egg?

Only one sperm cell can fertilise each ovum. After that no more can get in.


Do you need a male dove to fertilize the egg?

Yes. Doves reproduce sexually so the sperm and the ovum (egg) are needed to produce young.