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Where do babies come from?
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Human fertilization is the union of a human egg and sperm, usually occurring in the ampulla of the fallopian tube. It is also the initiation of prenatal development. Scientists discovered the dynamics of human fertilization in the nineteenth century.
Fertilization constitutes the penetration of the oocyte (egg) which the sperm performs, fusion of the sperm and oocyte, succeeded by fusion of their genetic material.
Fertilization starts with a man and a woman initiating sexual intercourse. The man inserts the penis into the woman's vagina. Upon orgasm, the man ejaculates semen, which contains millions of sperm, from his penis into the woman's vagina. Propelled through the female reproductive tract by flagellation, some of these sperm may reach the cell membrane of the oocyte, and a single sperm may penetrate the membrane. To reach the oocyte, the sperm must pass through the corona radiata and the zona pellucida; two layers covering and protecting the oocyte from fertilization by more than one sperm.
The sperm passes through the corona radiata, a layer of follicle cells on the outside of the secondary oocyte. Fertilization is when the nuclei of a sperm and an egg fuse. The sperm carries its DNA to the egg, which produces its own.
The acrosome reaction must occur to mobilise enzymes within the head of the spermatozoon to degrade the zona pellucida.
The sperm then reaches the zona pellucida, which is an extra-cellular matrix of glyco-proteins. A special complementary molecule on the surface of the sperm head then binds to a ZP3 glyco-protein in the zona pellucida. This binding triggers the acrosome to burst, releasing enzymes that help the sperm get through the zona pellucida.
Some sperm cells consume their acrosome prematurely on the surface of the egg cell, facilitating for other surrounding sperm cells, having on average 50% genome similarity, to penetrate the egg cell. It may be regarded as a mechanism of kin selection.
When the sperm penetrates the zona pellucida, the cortical reaction occurs: cortical granules inside the secondary oocyte fuse with the plasma membrane of the cell, causing enzymes inside these granules to be expelled by exocytosis to the zona pellucida. This in turn causes the glyco-proteins in the zona pellucida to cross-link with each other, making the whole matrix hard and impermeable to sperm. This prevents fertilization of an egg by more than one sperm.
The sperm fuses with the oocyte, enabling fusion of their genetic material, in turn.
The cell membranes of the secondary oocyte and sperm fuse together.
Both the oocyte and the sperm go through transformations, as a reaction to the fusion of cell membranes, preparing for the fusion of their genetic material.
The oocyte now completes its second meiotic division. This results in a mature ovum. The nucleus of the oocyte is called a pronucleus in this process, to distinguish it from the nuclei that are the result of fertilization.
The sperm's tail and mitochondria degenerate with the formation of the male pronucleus. This is why all mitochondria in humans are of maternal origin.
The pronuclei migrate toward the center of the oocyte, rapidly replicating their DNA as they do so to prepare the new human for its first mitotic division.
The male and female pronuclei don't fuse, although their genetic material do so. Instead, their membranes dissolve, leaving no barriers between the male and female chromosomes. During this dissolution, a mitotic spindle forms around them to catch the chromosomes before they get lost in the egg cytoplasm. By subsequently performing a mitosis (which includes pulling of chromatids towards centrioles in anaphase) the cell gathers genetic material from the male and female together. Thus, the first mitosis of the union of sperm and oocyte is the actual fusion of their chromosomes.
Each of the two daughter cells resulting from that mitosis have one replica of each chromatid that was replicated in the previous stage. Thus, they are genetically identical.
In other words, the sperm and oocyte don't fuse into one cell, but into two identical cells.
Fertilization constitutes the penetration of the oocyte (egg) which the sperm performs, fusion of the sperm and oocyte, succeeded by fusion of their genetic material.
Fertilization starts with a man and a woman initiating sexual intercourse. The man inserts the penis into the woman's vagina. Upon orgasm, the man ejaculates semen, which contains millions of sperm, from his penis into the woman's vagina. Propelled through the female reproductive tract by flagellation, some of these sperm may reach the cell membrane of the oocyte, and a single sperm may penetrate the membrane. To reach the oocyte, the sperm must pass through the corona radiata and the zona pellucida; two layers covering and protecting the oocyte from fertilization by more than one sperm.
The sperm passes through the corona radiata, a layer of follicle cells on the outside of the secondary oocyte. Fertilization is when the nuclei of a sperm and an egg fuse. The sperm carries its DNA to the egg, which produces its own.
The acrosome reaction must occur to mobilise enzymes within the head of the spermatozoon to degrade the zona pellucida.
The sperm then reaches the zona pellucida, which is an extra-cellular matrix of glyco-proteins. A special complementary molecule on the surface of the sperm head then binds to a ZP3 glyco-protein in the zona pellucida. This binding triggers the acrosome to burst, releasing enzymes that help the sperm get through the zona pellucida.
Some sperm cells consume their acrosome prematurely on the surface of the egg cell, facilitating for other surrounding sperm cells, having on average 50% genome similarity, to penetrate the egg cell. It may be regarded as a mechanism of kin selection.
When the sperm penetrates the zona pellucida, the cortical reaction occurs: cortical granules inside the secondary oocyte fuse with the plasma membrane of the cell, causing enzymes inside these granules to be expelled by exocytosis to the zona pellucida. This in turn causes the glyco-proteins in the zona pellucida to cross-link with each other, making the whole matrix hard and impermeable to sperm. This prevents fertilization of an egg by more than one sperm.
The sperm fuses with the oocyte, enabling fusion of their genetic material, in turn.
The cell membranes of the secondary oocyte and sperm fuse together.
Both the oocyte and the sperm go through transformations, as a reaction to the fusion of cell membranes, preparing for the fusion of their genetic material.
The oocyte now completes its second meiotic division. This results in a mature ovum. The nucleus of the oocyte is called a pronucleus in this process, to distinguish it from the nuclei that are the result of fertilization.
The sperm's tail and mitochondria degenerate with the formation of the male pronucleus. This is why all mitochondria in humans are of maternal origin.
The pronuclei migrate toward the center of the oocyte, rapidly replicating their DNA as they do so to prepare the new human for its first mitotic division.
The male and female pronuclei don't fuse, although their genetic material do so. Instead, their membranes dissolve, leaving no barriers between the male and female chromosomes. During this dissolution, a mitotic spindle forms around them to catch the chromosomes before they get lost in the egg cytoplasm. By subsequently performing a mitosis (which includes pulling of chromatids towards centrioles in anaphase) the cell gathers genetic material from the male and female together. Thus, the first mitosis of the union of sperm and oocyte is the actual fusion of their chromosomes.
Each of the two daughter cells resulting from that mitosis have one replica of each chromatid that was replicated in the previous stage. Thus, they are genetically identical.
In other words, the sperm and oocyte don't fuse into one cell, but into two identical cells.
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