Egg
The egg, or ovum, is the gamete (reproductive sex cell) produced by most female animals. It is fertilized by the sperm, which is the male gamete. The term "egg" is commonly used to i...
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Egg
EGG. The egg has aroused feelings of wonder in cultures all over the world. Its smooth, elliptical shell conceals the mystery of new life in formation. The sight of an egg hatching and a young cre...
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Watching as Life Begins: the Discovery of the Mammalian Ovum and the Process of Fertilization
Overview
The discovery of the mammalian ovum brought the realization that human reproduction occurred in t...
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Placenta and Placental Nutrition of the Embryo
The placenta (from Greek plakuos, flat cake) is an organ created from the zygote that links two individuals, the mother and the fetus. Throughout the pre...
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Egg
Sex cells of most animals are either eggs in females (ova) or sperm in males. Eggs have the potential, when fertilized with the sperm of a male, to divide, form an embryo, and develop into an orga...
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Ovum
Sex cells of most animals are either eggs in females (ova) or sperm in males. Eggs have the potential, when fertilized with the sperm of a male, to divide, form an embryo, and develop into an org...
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Ovum
The ovum, also called the egg, is the microscopic female sex cell. Its nucleus contains the chromosomes, which bear the hereditary material of the female parent.
Before birth, the ovaries of a fe...
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International Business Machines Corp. said Monday it agreed to buy software provider Telelogic AB for $745 million in cash, bolstering IBM's portfolio for the defense, telecommunications and automo...
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M6.8 quake jolts Niigata, vicinity, 7 dead, over 830 hurt
KASHIWAZAKI, Japan - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8
rocked a wide area centering on Niigata Prefecture on Monday ...
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A team led by Japanese scientists has successfully generated
healthy mice at a high frequency without any male participation,
according to the results of their work publicized Sunday on the
...
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Technology consultancy Capgemini will begin recommending Google Inc.'s online suite of office software to its corporate customers, bolstering the Internet search leader's effort to drum up more sal...
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Technology consultancy Capgemini will begin recommending Google Inc.'s online suite of office software to its corporate customers, bolstering the Internet search leader's effort to drum up more sal...
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Sony Corp. took another step to lure new customers for its high-end PlayStation3, saying it would sell a device to let users record live television that can be stored on the game console or transfe...
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Investors are betting on a big comeback for Juniper Networks and its beefy routers.Juniper's JNPR stock has nearly doubled in the last year and is up 26% in the past three months, easily beating th...
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SAP AG shares fell Monday on fears the German software company's $6.79 billion bid for Business Objects SA will dent earnings because of the high price of the deal and disappointing results from th...
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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB said Thursday that its third-quarter profit slipped as it sold more lower-priced phones.The company, a joint venture founded in 2001 by Tel...
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Customers in Germany and Britain lined up to buy the iPhone as it debuted there Friday, with Apple Inc. hoping to replicate the success that the combination cell phone, music player and Web browser...
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