{"id":7950,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fertilization_-or_syngamy\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T10:53:03","slug":"fertilization_-or_syngamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/fertilization_-or_syngamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fertilization (or syngamy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The union of male and female gametes during the process of sexual reproduction to form a zygote (see figure below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9635 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sperm-300x203.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sperm-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sperm-768x519.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Sperm.jpeg 772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center;\">A sperm at the moment of entering an ovum to fertilize it.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"acrosome\">Acrosome<\/a>, <a href=\"gametes\">Gametes<\/a>, <a href=\"spermatogonia\">Spermatogonia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/spermatozoa\/\">Spermatoza<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/zygote\/\">Zygote<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The union of male and female gametes during the process of sexual reproduction to form a zygote (see figure below). A sperm at the moment of entering an ovum to fertilize it. See Acrosome, Gametes, Spermatogonia, Spermatoza, Zygote<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9637,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions\/9637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}