Question

A common adage is that it only takes one sperm to fertilize an egg. As an anatomy student. What would be your response?.

Answer 1

While only one sperm head enters the egg, thousands are needed to break through the egg's defenses.

Yes it takes only one sperm to fertilize the egg but it does take many sperms to break through the defenses of the egg to reach the egg.

Where do we observe fertilization occurring?

It occurs in the ampullary part(Upper 3rd) of the Uterine Tube.

What is fertilization?

• Fertilization is a multi-step, intricate process that takes 24 hours to complete.
• The beginning of pregnancy and the start of a female's 280-day journey begin when male sperm and female ovum combine to form a zygote.
• There are two ways to monitor this procedure, and they vary depending on the day the counting starts.

What constitutes fertilization's four steps?

There are four distinct mechanisms that make up the stages of fertilization:

• Sperm preparation comes first, followed by sperm-egg recognition and binding.
• sperm-egg fusion.
• fusion of the pronuclei of the sperm and the egg.
• activation of the zygote.

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