When sperm meet egg
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Those millions of sperm have begun their quest to find your egg, and it's not an easy.
Fertility basics
Although it is happening every hour of every day, all over the world, the story of egg meeting sperm is still a tale worth telling. Millions of candidates set off on a.
Fertility basics
Description:LH triggers the ovaries to release the egg, while higher blood estrogen levels stimulate the vaginal membrane to secrete glycogen, which is then metabolized to lactate. Only 1 in 14 million of the ejaculated sperm will reach the Fallopian tube, but once there the sperm should pick up chemical signals from the egg to help them find their way forward. Also unlike sperm, the meiotic division to create eggs, oogenesis, only makes one viable egg. Since it is so much bigger than sperm, the egg is the source of cytosol and organelles,particularly mitochondria, for the future zygote.
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