Summary Chap.5 Par.

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The body begins with a single small cell. This small cell was a fertilised egg cell.

Only a several hundred sperm cells of millions of sperm cells in the semen, reach the correct oviduct.
The first sperm cell that successfully contacts the egg cell, will fertilise it. The sperm cell makes an
opening in the membrane of the egg cell and then the head of the sperm cell enters.

When the head of the sperm cell is inside, the membrane of the egg cell undergoes a few changes so
it prevents other sperms cells from entering. When the nucleus of both of the cells fuse together, the
hereditary information of the female and male are combined. This moment is called fertilisation.
Now the fertilised egg cell is called a zygote. Now the zygote will undergo many cell divisions. During
these cell divisions every cell that grows from the zygote, has the same hereditary information.

When there are two egg cells ovulated from the ovaries, and they are both fertilised you get a twin.
There are two sorts of twins:

 Fraternal twins Twins that each developed from their own zygote.
 Identical twins Twins that each developed from the same zygote.