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The fusion of the sperm and ovum is termed as:
Topic: Fertilisation
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(c) Fertilization.
FERTILISATION is specifically the FUSION of the male gamete (sperm) with the female gamete (ovum) to form a ZYGOTE.
The wrong options are all related terms from the same chapter, and the question tests whether you can distinguish a precise term from a general one: REPRODUCTION — the whole process of producing offspring, of which fertilisation is only one step DEVELOPMENT — what happens AFTER fertilisation, as the zygote grows into an embryo and foetus EMBRYO — a STRUCTURE, not a process at all
In humans fertilisation normally occurs in the upper third of the FALLOPIAN TUBE, and the resulting zygote is diploid, having received 23 chromosomes from each gamete.
Fertilization.