Once the sperm is in the female, the semen will carry it to the cervix, which is relaxed due to the sexual intercourse. Alot of sperm die just to get into cervix, once there and at the fallopian tubes, half of the sperm go to the wrong one, finally some sperm reach the egg and only 1 reaches the nucleaus and the chromosones unite, 24 male and female chromosones exactly, This is fertilisation.