Search results for "Ovum" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • once the zygote divides (thus becoming a fertilized ovum), until it becomes a fetus. A fetus (or foetus, or fœtus) is a developing mammal after the embryonic ...
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  • set of chromosomes. A sperm fertilizes an ovum, which serves as the female ... is determined by the sperm cell since the ovum always provides an X chromosome ...
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  • [[Image:Sperm-egg.jpg|thumb|230px|right|The fertilizing of an ovum ... In sexually reproducing organisms, fertilization of an ovum with a ...
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  • Embryophyta is a major grouping of plants, sometimes known as "land plants," that includes both the non-vascular bryophytes (mosses ...
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  • interior space, the ventral cells form an ovum surrounded by a special envelope ... Usually even before its liberation, the ovum initiates cleavage processes ...
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  • The term bioethics was first coined by American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology, ecology ...
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  • Chaetognatha is a phylum of small, slender, marine worms, generally characterized by a largely transparent body, fins on both the tail and the ...
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  • certain intervals, the ovaries release an ovum (the singular of ova), which ... Over a regular interval, a process of oogenesis matures one ovum to ...
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  • Gonorrhea is a common, highly contagious, sexually transmitted diseases (STD) that is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...
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  • role in reproduction by fertilizing the ovum. With the recent sequencing of the sea urchin genome, homology has been found between sea urchin ...
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  • Snail is the common name applied to most members of the mollusk class Gastropoda that have coiled shells. Snails are found in freshwater, marine ...
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  • undergo induced ovulation after mating, with the ovum released abuot 24 to 36 hours after copulation. They do not go into "heat" or have an ...
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  • Nitrogen (symbol N, atomic number 7) is the chief constituent of the Earth's atmosphere and a vital element in all known forms of life. ...
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  • parallel is charted between the sperm cell and the ovum where the genetic code lies coiled and the kundalini. Symbolized by a lotus with four petals. ...
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  • ***Porifera (sponges) ***Ctenophora (comb jellies) ***Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) ***Placozoa (trichoplax) *Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral ...
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  • tersely, wired London, "Monotremes oviparous, ovum meroblastic." That is, monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs are similar to those of reptiles ...
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  • Frog is the common name for any of the members of the amphibian order Anura, whose extant species are characterized by an adult with longer hind ...
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  • In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the mammalian species Homo sapiens, a group of ground-dwelling, tailless primates ...
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