fertilized egg
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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
Animal embryos go through a series of characteristic developmental stages on their journey from a fertilized egg cell to a functional organism.
From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2023
Every person starts with just one genome, the unique amalgam of paternal and maternal DNA in the fertilized egg.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 15, 2023
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
