Studies are conducted with colonies experimentally lacking both the queen and brood, which results in the development of laying workers. Because they lack a functional sperm-storage organ and do not mate, these individuals can only lay haploid male eggs. Laying workers, like queens, have low JH...
Fertilization occurs when the sex cells of a male (sperm) and female (egg) fuse together to make a diploid single cell. This cell contains the paired genetic information of both parents. A fertilized egg embeds itself on the uterine wall and as cell division occurs, it will grow from an ...
Release of calcium signaling the egg to divide and develop; Report from Richard C. Kuo in the August 10, 2000 edition of 'Nature' that sea urchin sperm contains an enzyme that synthesizes nitric oxide gas; How raising nitric oxide within an egg activates the cell's development; Question of...
The diagram below shows two types cells in the human reproductive system.sperm egg(a) Name the organs in which the sperms and the egg are produced. {2]sperms: Testes egg : ovay(b)(i)State the process shown in the diagram above.[1]Fertilisation(ii)Describe what happens during the proc...
Fertilization - Egg Activation, Sperm Fusion, Zygote: The acrosome reaction of spermatozoa is a prerequisite for the association between a spermatozoon and an egg, which occurs through fusion of their plasma membranes. After a spermatozoon comes in conta
The early events of sperm-egg interaction occurring 1-3 h after multiple sperm injection into the perivitelline space (PVS) and after direct injection into the ooplasm of human oocytes are reported. The sperm acrosome reaction occurred in the PVS but was not detected within the ooplasm. Sper...
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Protocols for isolation of gametes of Oryza sativa were developed and initial results on in vitro fusion of sperm and egg cells are reported. The best yield of viable sperm cells was obtained when pollen grains were cultured in a medium containing of 1.3 mM boric acid, 3.6 mM calcium chloride...
According to the size-advantage model (Ghiselin, 1969), protandry is favored in species in which: a) large females have more reproductive success than smaller females and similar-sized males and b) spawning occurs in pairs or small groups, and sperm competition is low. However, in contrast ...
During double fertilization in angiosperms, the pollen tube delivers two sperm cells into an embryo sac; one sperm cell fuses with an egg cell, and the other sperm cell fuses with the central cell. It has long been proposed that the preference for fusion with one or another female gamete ce...