Multiple choice

Which of the following statements characterises the sexual reproduction in humans?

  1. A mature human sperm contains a complete set of chromosomes.

  2. Primary spermatocytes divide by mitosis to give rise to spermatids.

  3. At parturition an ovary contains all the oocytes it will ever have.

  4. The sperms are known as male zygotes.

  5. In mammals, fertilization occurs in the uterus of a female.
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Explanation

This is the correct answer. At birth, a human ovary contains about 2,00,000 eggs. They each are enclosed in a single layer of cells called the primordial follicles. The ovaries do not produce any more eggs. Women are born with all of the eggs they will ever have.

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