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zygote
(redirected from Fertilized egg cell)

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zygote: see reproduction reproduction, capacity of all living systems to give rise to new systems similar to themselves. The term reproduction may refer to this power of self-duplication of a single cell or a multicellular animal or plant organism.
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The fertilized egg cell begins to divide and grow to become a blastocyst (ball of about 100 cells), then an embryo, and finally a fetus (unborn animal eight weeks after fertilization).
Medical milestone: South Korean scientists have cloned human cells to ... by Tucker, Libby / Science World
Each fertilized egg cell even establishes two distinct halves, along what is called the anterior-posterior axis.
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For dais to happen, these cells must first join their genetic material together to form a fertilized egg cell with a totally new and unique version of the human genome.
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