The study of 242 frozen, onecell embryos, which was published Sunday in the online journal Nature Biotechnology, is one of the first and best to capture on video the earliest stages of humanHuman somatic cells, with their full set of 46 chromosomes, have what geneticists refer to as a diploid number of chromosomes Gametes have a haploid number (23) When conception occurs, a human sperm and ovum combine their chromosomes to make a zygote (fertilized egg) with 46 chromosomes This is the same number that the parents each had in their somatic cellsFertilization Fertilization Events of fertilization The acrosome reaction of spermatozoa is a prerequisite for the association between a spermatozoon and an egg, which occurs through fusion of their plasma membranes After a spermatozoon comes in contact with an egg, the acrosome, which is a prominence at the anterior tip of the spermatozoa, undergoes a series of welldefined structural Q Tbn And9gcs4yes1bbghkudzddvvey3mdupftkq44bk08avgtf6apqyutu8