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Reproduction and
Development
What happens
to the egg cell?
What are we learning?
• What
– Where does fertilisation happen?
– What happens if an egg cell is fertilised?
– What happens if an egg cell is not fertilised (the Menstrual
Cycle)?
How?
– Card sort, class discussion, videos and questions
• Why?
– You started as a single cell, we need to know how this cell was made.
Put the following in order . . .
2 4
The sperm reaches
the egg and they
try to burrow in
5
Sperm is
ejaculated from One sperm
enters the egg The sperm
the penis and
and their reaches the
swims up the
nuclei fuse oviduct and
vagina
creating a moves
1 towards the
zygote (new 3
life) egg
An egg is
released
from the
ovary
Label your diagram.
Use your coursebook pg 58.
3.
2.
1.
4.
5 minutes
What happens after the egg is
fertilised?
3. The zygote divides to make a
little ball of cells called the
2. Egg cell is embryo.
fertilised in the
oviduct. A zygote
is formed.