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To: House Atreides

No it was fertilized by two sperm and then split.


14 posted on 02/28/2019 4:41:07 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Chickensoup

And a single ovum being fertilised by more than one sperm (polyspermy) is a vanishingly rare event, because normally, there are several biological blocks to polyspermy (the fast and slow blocks. Fast block is an almost immediate change in the polarity of the egg’s cell membrane, and the slow block is the raising of the hyalin layer several seconds later)...

(M.Sc. in Reproductive Physiology, in case you wondered).


40 posted on 02/28/2019 6:16:35 PM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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