Seventy to ninety percent of the genetic material in a sperm or egg cell made in your body could be inherited from your mother. Why isn’t there always a 50/50 split (half from your mother and half from your father)? Is the reverse situation (more genetic material from your father than from your mother) possible? Introduction: Fertilization is a biological process, in which a sperm and an egg combine, so that their nuclei fuse. Since each of these haploid cells containing half of the genetic material, their combination forms a diploid cell. This is called as zygote, which contains all of the genetic material needed to form a human.

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Seventy to ninety percent of the genetic material in a sperm or egg cell made in your body could be inherited from your mother. Why isn’t there always a 50/50 split (half from your mother and half from your father)? Is the reverse situation (more genetic material from your father than from your mother) possible?

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Fertilization is a biological process, in which a sperm and an egg combine, so that their nuclei fuse. Since each of these haploid cells containing half of the genetic material, their combination forms a diploid cell. This is called as zygote, which contains all of the genetic material needed to form a human.

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