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.
In humans, it takes about a day for a fertilized egg to start dividing. Many events transpire during the first day in preparation for the initial division. Each gamete, the male sperm and female egg, has a single, or haploid, set of 23 chromosomes.However, the egg must undergo further development before its chromosomes can align with those of the sperm. It's this alignment, which occurs in anaphase of mitosis, that begins the process of cytokinesis, or cell division.ortical Reaction. When a sperm penetrates the cell membrane of an egg cell, it sets off a reaction that causes the egg to secrete cortical granules. These are special vesicles that concentrate in the eggâs cortex layer, right below the cell membrane.