Fertilisation Flashcards
1
Q
What is the name of the Female Gamete?
A
Egg.
Produced in ovaries.
2
Q
What does the Egg do in Fertilisation?
A
An egg is larger than a system because it has a store of food in its cytoplasm to allow it to complete its long journey down the oviduct.
Its nucleus has 23 chromosomes (haploid cell).
3
Q
What is the name of the Male Gamete?
A
Sperm.
Produces in Testes.
4
Q
What does the Sperm do in fertilisation?
A
A sperm consist of a head region containing 23 chromosomes (haploid cell) and a tail which enables it to swim to the egg to fertilise it.
5
Q
What is Fertilisation?
A
The fusion of the nuclei of the two haploid gametes to produce a diploid zygote, which discuses to form an embryo.
