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Question
Given below is the name of certain stage/substance related to reproduction and found in human body. Answer the questions related to it.
Hyaluronidase.
- Is it an enzyme or simply a protein?
- What is its function?
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Solution
- Hyaluronidase is an enzyme.
- The acrosome at the top of the head of the sperm secretes an enzyme (hyaluronidase), which facilitates entry of the sperm into the egg by dissolving the wall of the ovum.
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