do earthworms fertilize their own eggs
Biology · High School · Thu Jan 21 2021
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Earthworms cannot ferilized their own eggs, even though they are classified to be hermaphrodites, or their gender is both male and female. They are known to reproduce asexually, even though they have the male and female reproductive organs, and they can still mate, with other Earthworms. The earthworms have two male openings and two sperm receptacles, which can take the sperm of another male, hence earthworms also have ovaries that produced egg, but they cannot fertilized it on their own.