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Question:

Choose the most appropriate answer.
(a) Internal fertilization occurs
(i) in female body.
(ii) outside female body.
(iii) in male body.
(iv) outside male body.
(b) A tadpole develops into an adult frog by the process of
(i) fertilization
(ii) metamorphosis
(iii) embedding
(iv) budding
(c) The number of nuclei present in a zygote is
(i) none
(ii) one
(iii) two
(iv) four

Solution:

(a) Internal fertilization is a type of sexual fertilization. It is the union of an egg cell with a sperm during sexual reproduction inside the body of a female. For this process, male sperms are required to enter into the female reproductive system (b) Metamorphosis is a biological process of physical change in an animal after its growth (c) A zygote is a fertilized egg formed after the union of male and female gamete. It has two nuclei contributed each by male and female gamete.