KINESIOL 1Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Zona Pellucida, Granulosa Cell, Polyspermy

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The embryonic period extends from the fertilization through the 8th week. The genetic material from a haploid sperm cell and a haploid secondary oocyte merge into a single diploid nucleus. Sperm can remain viable for about 48 hours to 6 days. An oocyte can only be fertilization within 24 hours of the release from the ovary. The sperm is ejected into the vagina, then will swim through to the cervix into the uterus. The uterus helps move the sperm a little with small contractions (start using hormones from the uterus and the sperm) but the sperm mainly use their flagella. Then the sperm will swim through the fallopian/uterine tubes into the ampullar region of the fallopian tubes where the secondary oocyte is (outside the ovary) The first sperm to make it through the zona pellucida will continue to the plasma membrane and bind to the oocyte.

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