The female gamete of an animal or plant, capable of fusing with a male gamete to produce a zygote.
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1 Result: a fertilized egg with healthy mitochondria and its parents' nuclear DNA.
2 The chick shows itself in the egg , the child in the cradle.
3 Another said: This place couldn't even cook an egg the right way.
4 It's difficult to know which comes first in this particular chicken - or - egg scenario.
5 Season veal cutlets; dip in beaten egg and roll in fine bread-crumbs.
1 Then an egg cell is hollowed out and the nucleus from the adult cell inserted.
2 The nucleus of a viable egg cell is replaced with a cell nucleus from a donor.
3 If the affected DNA is in a sperm or egg cell , these changes may be passed along to offspring.
4 After the hybrid egg cell began dividing, it was implanted into the uterus of another animal, which carried the clone to birth.
5 An inherent impulse in the ovum (protoplasm or egg cell ) serves to separate the albuminous substance into groups of an opposite nature.
1 Only a small part of the surface of the ovum is shown.
2 No sperm at hand, or effective enough to penetrate that wandering ovum .
3 Is the ovum itself a cell, or is it composed of cells?
4 In each house is the ovum , it comes forth after a thousand years.
5 In these the original nucleus of the ovum , the germinal vesicle, is lost.
6 It includes the placenta, the umbilical cord, and the membranes of the ovum .
7 These were produced from a single fertilized ovum , in laboratory conditions.
8 But he showed presently that the ovum was sound in quality.
9 POLYSPERMISM: the penetration of more than one sperm-cell into the ovum .
10 In his view, a fertilised ovum is a potential human being.
11 The ovum of many other animals has the same internal and external features.
12 The wide-awake, vibrating lifelike sperm plunges head first and bodily into the ovum .
13 This membrane is the follicle, from which the ovum afterwards issues.
14 As the ovum sinks into this especially prepared bed, the villi are formed.
15 The human ovum , taken from the female ovary, magnified 500 times.
16 Is the union of a sperm cell and an ovum a human being?
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