Maybe this is common knowledge, if so sorry for the extraeneous post, but I'm not sure what goes on internally for females. In mammals there's ovulation, then egg meets sperm, forms an embyro, and eventually out comes a baby or a puppy or whatever. But somehow I feel like this is somehow different in reptiles? When the breeding timeline talks about ovulation in the female is that before any genetic material is exchanged? Or is that her forming the eggs that are going to be laid? This would probably seem more intuitive if I'd been through it before, but as a total newb I'd apprecite it if anyone could someone could explain what goes on internally once boy meets girl.

Thanks!