Fertilization
Life can persist in one of two ways. First, living things can spurn death in the hope of living forever. This is usually not possible, because death by predation or other unintentional c...
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Fertilization
Fertilization is the fusion of a female's egg cell (oocyte) and a male's sperm cell (spermatozoa) to form the first cell of a new and unique being. While on the surface thi...
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Fertilization
In animals, fertilization is the fusion of a sperm cell with an egg cell. The penetration of the egg cell by the chromosome-containing part of the sperm cell causes a reaction, which pre...
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Fertilization
For many years, the process of fertilization was a mystery to biologists. It was not until the late nineteenth century, when the science of microscopy had begun to take off, that scienti...
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Fertility Factor
The fertility, or F, factor, is a classic example of an episome, a genetic element that exists either as a free circular plasmid, or as a linear sequence integrated into a bacterial c...
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Fertilization
In animals, fertilization is the fusion of a sperm cell with an egg cell. The penetration of the egg cell by the chromosome-containing part of the sperm cell causes a reaction, which pre...
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Fertilization
For many years, the process of fertilization was a mystery to biologists. It was not until the late nineteenth century, when the science of microscopy had begun to take off, that scienti...
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Biological Fertility
The number of offspring produced by a female organism. In a population, biological fertility is measured as the general fertility rate (the birth rate multiplied by the number of ...
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