Maternity and other parental leave. You and your employer will continue to make pension contributions if youâre getting paid during maternity leave. If youâre not getting paid, your employer still has to make pension contributions in the first 26 weeks of your leave (âOrdinary Maternity Leaveâ).They have to carry on making contributions afterwards if itâs in your contract. Check your employerâs maternity policy.aid leave. During paid leave, you and your employer carry on making pension contributions. The amount you contribute is based on your actual pay during this time, but your employer pays contributions based on the salary you would have received if you werenât on leave.
1 In a human egg or sperm, there are 23 chromosomes, one of which is an X or Y. 2  The number of chromosomes is reduced from 46 to 23 during the process of meiosis. 3  Fertilization of the egg by the sperm restores the diploid number of 46 chromosomes. All cells in a higher eukaryote (like us) are diploid Â­ EXCEPT ...for the germ cells Â­ eggs and sperm. 2  Germ cells have only half the number of chromosomes as a diploid cell Â­ one of each pair-and are termed haploid (n) . 3  In a human egg or sperm, there are 23 chromosomes, one of which is an X or Y.
Illustration depicting ovulation and fertilization. Human fertilization is the union of a human egg and sperm, usually occurring in the ampulla of the fallopian tube. The result of this union is the production of a zygote cell, or fertilized egg, initiating prenatal development. Scientists discovered the dynamics of human fertilization in the nineteenth century. The process of fertilization involves a sperm fusing with an ovum.