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What is the significance of fertilization?

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Significance of fertilisation
(i) It results in fusion of male and female gametes, leading to formation of zygote.
(ii) It mixes characters of two parents
(iii) Diploid (2n) chromosome number of species is restored.
(iv) It stimulates the fertilised egg (zygote) to undergo cleavage_
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