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Besides activating the egg, another role...

Besides activating the egg, another role of a sperm is to carry to egg

A

RNA

B

mitochondria

C

DNA

D

ribosomes.

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C
During fertilisation, the head of the sperm containing nucleus (DNA) enters the egg leading to formation of diplod zygote.
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