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 ...8 KB (1,283 words) - 18:00, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (2,055 words) - 17:43, 14 October 2022
- [[Image:Sperm-egg.jpg|thumb|230px|right|The fertilizing of an ovum ... In sexually reproducing organisms, fertilization of an ovum with a ...10 KB (1,501 words) - 01:40, 13 January 2023
- Embryophyta is a major grouping of plants, sometimes known as "land plants," that includes both the non-vascular bryophytes (mosses ...11 KB (1,564 words) - 10:22, 21 January 2023
- interior space, the ventral cells form an ovum surrounded by a special envelope ... Usually even before its liberation, the ovum initiates cleavage processes ...38 KB (5,754 words) - 16:47, 2 May 2023
- The term bioethics was first coined by American biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter to describe a new philosophy that integrates biology, ecology ...12 KB (1,586 words) - 17:53, 31 October 2023
- Chaetognatha is a phylum of small, slender, marine worms, generally characterized by a largely transparent body, fins on both the tail and the ...12 KB (1,699 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- certain intervals, the ovaries release an ovum (the singular of ova), which ... Over a regular interval, a process of oogenesis matures one ovum to ...31 KB (4,574 words) - 06:48, 5 October 2022
- Gonorrhea is a common, highly contagious, sexually transmitted diseases (STD) that is caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae ...15 KB (2,205 words) - 11:56, 24 January 2023
- role in reproduction by fertilizing the ovum. With the recent sequencing of the sea urchin genome, homology has been found between sea urchin ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 17:33, 25 January 2023
- Snail is the common name applied to most members of the mollusk class Gastropoda that have coiled shells. Snails are found in freshwater, marine ...16 KB (2,467 words) - 15:00, 27 April 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,774 words) - 07:47, 9 March 2023
- 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. ...22 KB (3,304 words) - 02:26, 16 November 2022
- 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. ...24 KB (3,564 words) - 17:25, 30 September 2021
- ***Porifera (sponges) ***Ctenophora (comb jellies) ***Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, anenomes) ***Placozoa (trichoplax) *Subregnum Bilateria (bilateral ...30 KB (3,941 words) - 07:27, 20 June 2021
- tersely, wired London, "Monotremes oviparous, ovum meroblastic." That is, monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs are similar to those of reptiles ...38 KB (5,579 words) - 01:53, 10 April 2023
- 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 ...41 KB (6,365 words) - 07:07, 15 April 2024
- In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the mammalian species Homo sapiens, a group of ground-dwelling, tailless primates ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023