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Why do you think millions of sperm are needed to fertilize one egg?
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Why do you think millions of sperm are needed to fertilize one egg?
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Millions of sperm are needed because most of them don't make it up there to the egg. So i'm thinking maybe more sperm means the higher chance of the egg being fertilized.
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