Fun Facts About Gerald Ford. 1  His middle name is Rudolph. 2  He nearly died in World War II when a typhoon hit his aircraft carrier and it caught fire. 3  Around 400 Eagle Scouts attended Ford's funeral and took part in the procession. 4  His number 48 football jersey was retired at the University of Michigan.
Then, the process of becoming pregnant takes several days â the fertilized egg (now called a blastocyst) has only just begun its long journey. Once the egg is fertilized, it now has to travel all the way up into the uterus for implantation to take place.
Meiosis is the process of cell division leading to the production of gametes. A diploid parent cell divides into four haploid daughter cells. Fertilization. Fertilization of a haploid sperm cell with a haploid ovum produces a diploid zygote (fertilized egg). In humans, the egg and sperm each have a haploid number of 23 chromosomes. When a sperm fertilizes an egg, the resulting diploid zygote has 46 chromosomes (two sets of 23 chromosomes).