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"Fertilization" is not required for asexual cell division.

It's not reproducing in that way. It's like cloning itself. Each time the cell divides, it's an exact genetic copy except over the course of millions of years random "hiccups" happen. Only the strongest, best adapted hiccups continue and become more complex leading to life as we know it.

It didn't need to get fertilized. It asexually divided and reproduced and then eventually gender mutations occurred.

The egg... The first life forms to evolve on earth were single-celled organisms and an unfertilized egg is a single cell so...