fertilization (beginning a New organism )
FERTILIZATION IS THE PROCESS: where by THE GAMETES—sperm and egg—fuse together to begin the creation of a new organism. Fertilization accomplishes two separate ends: sex (the combining of genes derived from two parents) and reproduction (the generation of a new organism). Thus, the first function of fertilization is to transmit genes from parent to offspring, and the second is to initiate in the egg cytoplasm those reacti...