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 | | When the female egg is fertilized by the male sperm during sexual reproduction, the two separate haploid cells fuse together to become one cell called a diploid zygote, meaning it now has 46 chromosomes with 23 coming from each gamete, which develops into a new diploid individual. |
 | | For example, when you were born you inherited 23 chromosomes from your mother, from the fertilized egg, and 23 chromosomes from your father, from the sperm that fertilized the egg. |
 | | She then lays the egg and, through a muscular contraction,, releases the sperm and fertilizes the egg, or closes off the sperm organ and the egg is laid but not fertilized. |
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