fertilize
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Researchers at Michigan State University have identified a molecular "switch" that boosts sperm energy just before they attempt to fertilize an egg.
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In regions north of the Antarctic Polar Front -- a boundary where cold Antarctic waters meet warmer waters to the north -- that dust helped fertilize algae.
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Although nitrogen fertilizer was used in the experiment, the researchers do not recommend fertilizing forests.
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But syrup producers do not plant, irrigate, fertilize or use insecticides on their self-sufficient forests.
In clinical terms, IVF involves removing eggs from a woman, fertilizing them in a lab with sperm and implanting embryos in the uterus.
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