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Im just wondering about pregnancy process. I know that it’s only one cell that fertilize the egg. My question is what happens to the rest cells that have already entered the cervix? Do they survive and get combine with the fertilized egg which gets down after fertilization? Do they have any roll on the infant development in the cervix or they are already dead before the egg is fertilized?
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You are asking what happens to the sperm that is left if it is not 'the' sperm that impregnates you?  First, sperm can live for around 5 days in your reproductive tract because of the mucous there.  If you have sperm that has fertilized the egg, what happens to the rest is your question?  It moves around your reproductive tract and then disintegrates.  Live sperm fertilizes an egg.  One sperm fertilizes an egg unless yo are having twins in the case of one egg, two sperm but that is very rare.  
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Do you mean an infant will be developed with a combination of the woman egg(ovaries) and only one sperm cell of the entire evacuation? I thought when the egg falls down in to the Uterus , then gets combined with the rest sperm cells which couldn’t reach the egg.
One sperm fertilizes one egg.  The rest of the sperm die and are evacuated by normal processes, via the vagina.  
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