zygote
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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.