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A peek inside your womb -- Fertilization

Fallopian tube: A sperm must swim all the way from your vagina up through your cervix and uterus and into the fallopian tube to fertilize the egg.

Ovary: One of your eggs has broken out of its follicle in the ovary and been swept into the fallopian tube.

Ovum: Once a sperm burrows through the outer membrane to penetrate the ovum, or egg, their genetic material combines to form a new cell that soon starts rapidly dividing.

Sperm: All it takes is one sperm out of about 250 million in the average ejaculation to fertilize the egg.