fertilized egg
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The human body contains hundreds of specialized cell types, all of which originate from a single fertilized egg and carry essentially the same genetic instructions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
The fertilized egg then evolves into a float that returns to the surface and forms another colony.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
During IVF, a doctor collects eggs from a woman, sperm is used to fertilize the eggs outside the body and one fertilized egg is implanted at a time.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2024
Evolutionarily, it has always been taught that the purpose of menstruation is to shed old uterine linings in the absence of a fertilized egg.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2024
In 1768, the Berlin embryologist Caspar Wolff tried to finesse an answer by concocting a guiding principle—vis essentialis corporis, as he called it—that progressively shepherded the maturation of a fertilized egg into a human form.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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