between the female's ovum and male's sperm to form a zygote in frogs. In 1827, Karl Ernst von Baer observed a therian mammalian egg for the first time. Oscar Hertwig (1876), in Germany, described the fusion of nuclei of spermatozoa and of ova of sea urchins.

Evolution

The evolution of fertilisation is related to the origin of meiosis,

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