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When an egg and a sperm comes together it is called sexual reproduction.
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∙ 9y agoFertilization is the process that results in the union of a male sperm cell and female egg cell.
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∙ 9y agoFertilization is the term for the union of the sperm and egg.
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∙ 13y agoFertilization
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∙ 14y agofertilization or fusion
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∙ 13y agoreproduction
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∙ 14y agoa zygote
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When the sperm meats with the egg what is this called?
Fertilization is the process describing the union of the sperm cell and the ovum.
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.
How much larger than a sperm cell is an ovum?
assuming you mean a sperm and not a cingular cell of a sperm, it is about 1/18th the size of an ovum.
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.
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 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.
Is the female reproductive cell called sperm?
No, it is called an ovum.
What is the cell division that take place in the sperm and ovum?
Meiosis.
What is the function of the egg cell and sperm cell?
the sperm cells have to swim to the ovum and then fertilise it. and the egg cells have to reproduvce the offspring
What is the uniting of an ovum and sperm cell?
The uniting of an egg and sperm cell is called unification
What is the meeting of sperm qnd ovum?
the egg will move into a position then the sperm cell will move closer]
