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Question
Give the significance of fertilization.
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Solution
Significance of fertilization:
- Fertilization maintains the diploid number of chromosomes in the newly formed zygote.
- It combines characters from two parents bringing about variation in the offspring.
- It determines the sex of the offspring.
- Fertilization introduces centrioles in the cell which are missing in the ovum.
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