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A process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg
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acrosome
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n. a process at the anterior end of a sperm cell that produces enzymes to facilitate penetration of the egg
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n. A structure forming the end of the head of a spermatozoon.
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The acrosome is an organelle that develops over the anterior half of the head in the spermatozoa (sperm cells) of many animals. It is a cap-like structure derived from the Golgi apparatus . Acrosome formation is fully completed 5–10 years after testicular ...
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At first it was thought that the enzyme on the acrosome was being inhibited in some fashion and thus the spermatozoon was being prevented from penetrating the zona pellucida—the protective layer of the ovum— but a series of beautiful demonstrations by Russell and Austin at Cambridge proved beyond all doubt that not only could fertilization still take place outside the uterus, but that non-parthogenic cell division could still be induced in vitro at least as far as the morula stage.