Anatomy & Physiology
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Author: Kelly A. Young, James A. Wise, Peter DeSaix, Dean H. Kruse, Brandon Poe, Eddie Johnson, Jody E. Johnson, Oksana Korol, J. Gordon Betts, Mark Womble
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Chapter 28, Problem 4RQ
Although the male ejaculate contains hundreds of millions of sperm, ________.
- most do not reach the oocyte
- most are destroyed by the alkaline environment of the uterus
- it takes millions to penetrate the outer layers of the oocyte
- most are destroyed by cap a citation
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