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If at a time one egg is fertilized by 2 or more sperm, what will happen?

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When a single egg is fertilised by more than one sperm it is known as polyspermy. In such cases, the resulting embryo contains multiple copies of a chromosome (instead of two copies, one from each parent). The zygote formed as a result cannot survive.

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