CD81 or CD9-knockout mice do not properly undergo this process.
CD81 or CD9-knockout mice do not properly undergo this process. Sir Robert Edwards won the Nobel Prize for developing a way to emulate this process, a key component of which is triggered by the binding of GalT to ZP3. The "calcium bomb hypothesis" explains the increase in cytosolic calcium concentration during this process. The release of cortical granules initiates the "slow block" during this process. A type of cell involved in it undergoes the (*) acrosome reaction as it approaches the zona pellucida, after which its mitochondria are excluded. Amphibians and fish are among the animals that undergo this process externally; in mammals, it is followed by implantation in the uterine wall. For 10 points, name this process that creates a zygote from the union of a sperm and an egg.
CD81 or CD9-knockout mice do not properly undergo this process.
fertilization [or fecundation; or syngamy; or acrosome reaction until it is read; prompt on "conception"]