A reproductive difference between sea urchins and humans is ________.
A) the sea urchin egg completes meiosis prior to fertilisation, but meiosis in humans is completed after fertilisation
B) sea urchin eggs and sperm are of equal size, but human eggs are much bigger than human sperm
C) sea urchins, but not humans, have a need to block polyspermy, because only in sea urchins can there be more than one source of sperm to fertilise the eggs
D) sea urchin zygotes get their mitochondria from the sperm, but human zygotes get their mitochondria from the egg
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Q2: A human blastomere is _.
A) an embryonic
Q3: In an egg cell treated with a
Q6: In order to test how sea urchin
Q8: Among these choices, the largest cell involved
Q8: In order to test how sea urchin
Q9: In mammalian eggs, the receptors for sperm
Q10: The plasma membrane of the sea urchin
Q11: The formation of the fertilisation envelope requires
Q15: At the moment of sperm penetration, human
Q20: The pattern of embryonic development in which
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