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• n  (genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell)

• It's not as good as the Sue Grafton titles, but eventually she has to get to "Z" is for zygote.
• To further improve the success rates, Asch's researchers tried fertilizing the egg in a lab dish and then placing the pre-embryo, or zygote, directly into the Fallopian tube -- a .
• Every time individuals produce a new zygote, there's a reshuffling and recombination of genes.

• fertilized ovum

News & Articles

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• Scrabble Sends One Man Scrambling for Meaning
  Chess never moved me. I played a little bit of poker and pool, but not enough to earn a nickname like Slim or Fats. No, my game was always Scrabble, almost going back to my days as a zygote, which,... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  July 4, 2013 - Scientific American

Quotes

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• Grant Chapman in San Diego Union Tribune
  Experiments which subject the zygote, or embryo, to any significant risk are the ethical equivalent of the infamous medical experiments that we're inflicted on the unwilling and uninformed victims in Nazi death camps,Chapman said.
• Ernie Chambers in Kaiser network.org
  However, state Sen. Ernie Chambers said, "A zygote does not have a body. Where there is no body, there cannot be serious bodily injury."