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After ejaculation how can sperm penetrate an egg?
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Complex Interaction: When the sperm find the egg, many of them are required to get through the outer layers surrounding the egg. Then a single sperm is allowed to fuse with the egg's cell membrane, at which time the genetic contents of the sperm are brought inside the egg.
Answered 12/9/2013
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