Assertion: sperm | /r/CapableOf | enter the egg
Facets:
value: to occur
type: PURPOSE
value: shortly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In order to prevent polyspermy and minimise the possibility of producing a triploid zygote, several changes to the egg's zona pellucida renders them impenetrable shortly after the first sperm enters the egg.
text: This, in turn, allows the sperm cell to penetrate and enter the egg for fertilization to take place.
text: C. to allow the first sperm to enter the egg and fertilization to occur
text: C. to allow the first sperm to enter the egg and fertilization to occur
text: The sperm may enter the egg.
text: There are three stages to fertilization which ensure that the appropriate egg and sperm are able to find each other and to warrant that only one sperm enters the egg: chemotaxis, sperm activation/acrosomal reaction and sperm/egg adhesion.
text: Once the sperm cell enters the egg, the chromosomes combine with the female gamete to make up 46 chromosomes -
text: This process is called the cortical reaction and is responsible for ensuring that only one sperm cell can enter and fertilize the egg.