which was key to identifying the ‘lock and key’ fusion. It wasn't previously known how the proteins “worked together as a team in order to allow sperm and egg to recognize each other ...

Therefore, plants rely on sperm and egg fusion to prevent multiple pollen grains from trying to reach the egg, according to research published yesterday (May 17) in Current Biology. When pollen grains ...

This fusion of gametes is called fertilisation. Gametes are formed by a type of cell division called meiosis. In animals the gametes are sperm and eggs. In flowering plants the gametes are pollen ...

Ovum or eggs are one of the biggest cells in the body and relatively, only a few are made. Fertilisation is the fusion of a sperm nucleus and an egg nucleus to form a zygote A zygote is a ...