Fertilized in A Sentence

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    A fertilized egg outside the uterus should be removed as quickly as possible because the most common outcome of untreated ectopic pregnancy is a burst fallopian tube, which is a medical emergency and in some women leads to infertility.

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    A fraternal twin set is made when a woman releases two eggs, and each egg is fertilized by its own sperm (unlike identical twins, where one egg splits into two).

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    A male sperm lives approximately 72 hours inside the woman waiting for an egg to be fertilized.

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    A tubal pregnancy means that the egg was fertilized inside the fallopian tube and cannot progress to a healthy pregnancy.

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    A tubal pregnancy occurs more often in women with unaltered tubes when the fertilized egg implants itself in the fallopian tube before reaching the uterus.

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    Additionally, because eggs can be fertilized for 24 hours after release, the day after ovulation is still considered a fertile time.

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    After ovulation, the egg can be fertilized for up to 24 hours.

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    After the body of a spermatozoid has coalesced with the egg-nucleus the latter divides repeatedly and forms a mass of tissue which grows more vigorously in the lower part of the fertilized ovum, and extends upwards towards the apex of the ovum as a peripheral layer of parenchyma surrounding a central space.

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    After the egg-cells have been fertilized by the non-motile male cells they grow into tubular proembryos, producing terminal embryos.

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    All sexually reproducing organisms develop from a single fertilized oocyte by cell multiplication and differentiation.

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    All the nutrients required for embryo development are already present within the fertilized egg, stored in the form of yolk protein molecules.

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    An ectopic pregnancy is one in which the fertilized egg does not implant itself in the lining of the uterus, but stays (often) in the fallopian tube or in some other area outside the uterus.

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    An ectopic pregnancy is one in which the fertilized egg is implanted outside the uterus.

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    An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg remains in the fallopian tube instead of in the uterus.

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    An egg can survive after ovulation and without being fertilized for about 24 hours.

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    An IUD prevents the fertilized egg from implanting in the lining of the uterus and may have other effects as well.

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    Any form of birth control that destroys the fetus or fertilized ovum rather than preventing conception is therefore wrong.

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    As each city or district had its own Ba'al, the author of its fertility, the " husband " (a common meaning of ba'al) of the land which he fertilized, so there were many Ba'als, and the Old Testament writers could allude to the Ba`alim of the neighbouring Canaanites.

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    As the seed develops from the ovule which has been fertilized by the pollen, the essential structures for seed-production are two, viz.

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    As you're thinking about when to plant fruit trees, pay attention to the way the particular variety is fertilized and pollinated.

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    At this point, abandoning the two fertilized eggs might be a worse sin.

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    By the segmentation of the fertilized egg, now invested by cell-membrane, the embryo-plant arises.

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    C, Transverse section of the The eggs of Limulus are fertilized in the sea after they have been laid.

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    Chinese cabbage in Austria is heavily fertilized to produce big heads.

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    Coleochaete sp., fertilized egg tion.

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    Conception occurs when the female egg (ovum) is fertilized by a the male sperm.

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    Concerning the second question, the recent investigations of Buchner ascogenous hyphae with their asci represent the sporophyte since they are derived from the fertilized ascogonium.

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    Contraceptive-A device or medication designed to prevent pregnancy by either suppressing ovulation, preventing sperm from passing through the cervix to fertilize an egg, or preventing implantation of a fertilized egg.

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    Damage to the fallopian tubes can prevent the fertilized egg from traveling down the tube and into the uterus.

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    Dickel and others have lately claimed that fertilized eggs can give rise to either queens, workers or males, according to the food supplied to the larvae and the influence of supposed "sex-producing glands" possessed by the nurse-workers.

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    Discover how a baby develops in the womb and learn about changes that take place as a fertilized egg develops into a cluster of cells that gradually form an embryo.

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    Due to hormonal changes that occur fairly quickly once an egg has been fertilized and has embedded itself in the uterine wall, women can experience physical changes early on in pregnancy.

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    During pairing he thrusts the tip of these organs into the seminal vesicles of the female and the eggs are fertilized as they pass out of the oviduct.

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    During the first two weeks, the fertilized eggs, aka blastocytes, develop into embryos.

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    Egg Donation-You may be able to receive an egg from a donor which will then be fertilized with your partner's sperm.

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    Eggs produced in the autumn by fertilized females remain on the plant through the winter and hatching in the spring give rise to female individuals which may be winged or wingless.

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    Eggs that do not ripen fully cannot be fertilized.

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    Endometriosis may lead to scarring; if the fallopian tubes become scarred from the implants, the egg may not be able to travel through them to get fertilized.

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    Eric Williams, author of Capitalism and Slavery, argued that colonialism had fertilized every root and branch of industrial capitalism.

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    Even among Bangiaceae the carpospores arise from the fertilized cell by division, while in all other Rhodophyceae the oospore, as it may be called, gives rise to a filamentous structure, varying greatly in its dimensions, epiphytic, and to a large extent parasitic upon the egg-bearing parent plant, and in the end giving rise to carpospores in the terminal cells of certain branches.

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    Even now they waited for news that the eggs that had been taken from her body had been artificially fertilized.

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    Fertilized egg division which produces twins can either happen early or late in development.

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    Fertilized egg with the central uninucleate cell (o) surrounded by the oosphere and the fertilizing periplasm (p).

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    For example, research into the way genes control limb development in the fertilized chicken egg provides insight into how human limbs develop.

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    For new varieties the flowers should be fertilized with a view to combine, in the seedlings which result from the union, the desirable qualities of the parents.

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    Fraternal twins develop from two separate ova released at the same time and fertilized by two separate sperm.

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    Fraternal, or dizygotic, twins occur when the mother produces two eggs in one monthly cycle and both eggs are fertilized.

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    He finds that eight chromosomes appear in karyokinesis in the ordinary thallus cells, but sixteen in the gonimoblast filaments derived from the fertilized carpogonium.

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    Here the eggs are fertilized and here they segment so that the young embryos are formed within their mother's 9 body.

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    However, if a sperm does not fertilize the egg, the body no longer needs the uterine lining to support the fertilized egg.

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    Identical twins are formed when one fertilized egg is split into two during the first twelve days after the egg is fertilized.

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    Identical twins are formed when one fertilized egg splits into two.

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    Identical twins represent the splitting of a single fertilized zygote (union of two gametes or male/female sex cells to produce a developing embryo) into two separate individuals.

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    If the egg gets fertilized, it embeds itself in the layer of blood lining the uterus.

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    If the egg is fertilized by a man's sperm, it will implant in the uterus and begin to grow into a baby.

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    If the egg is not fertilized by sperm, it dies and the egg and uterus lining are shed as a period.

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    If the egg is not fertilized, however, resultant hormonal changes cause the endometrium to slip away and menstruation begins.

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    If the egg is not fertilized, the lining is shed, making you have your period.

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    If the egg isn't fertilized, the lining sloughs off and leaves the body as a menstrual period.

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    If the egg was not fertilized, progesterone encourages the uterus to shed the lining, and the result is menstruation flow.

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    If the ovum is fertilized by a sperm at this time, pregnancy occurs.

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    Implantation bleeding is light bleeding that occurs approximately 7 to 10 days after ovulation, when the fertilized egg implants itself into the uterus.

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    Implantation-The process in which the fertilized egg embeds itself in the wall of the uterus.

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    In a normal pregnancy, the egg is fertilized by a man's sperm and then implants in the woman's uterus, where it develops into a baby.

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    In an ectopic pregnancy the fertilized egg implants into a place other than the uterus.

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    In Behar it has begun to replace indigo, and some success was achieved in Orissa, Assam and Madras; but jute is a very exhausting crop, and requires to be planted in lands fertilized with silt or else with manure.

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    In Ephedra helvetica, as described by Jaccard, no proembryo or suspensor is formed; but the most vigorous fertilized egg, after undergoing several divisions, becomes attached to a tissue, termed the columella, which serves the purpose of a primary suspensor; the columella appears to be formed by the lignification of certain cells in the central region of the embryo-sac. At a later stage some of the cells in the upper (micropylar) end of the embryo divide and undergo considerable elongation, serving the purpose of a secondary suspensor.

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    In fresh-water culture the eggs thus fertilized may be at once distributed to the waters to be stocked, or they may be kept in special receptacles provided with a suitable stream of water until the fry are hatched, and then distributed, or again they may be reared in the hatchery for several months until the fry are active and hardy.

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    In Naccaria, one of the Gelidiaceae, it is observable that the ooblastema filament, as the tube arising from the fertilized carpogonium has been called, fuses completely with a cell contiguous to the carpogonium before giving rise to the foraging filaments already refered to.

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    In Peronospora, Saprolegnia, &c., the ends of the branches swell up into sporangia, which develop zoospores in their interior (zoosporangia), or their contents become oospheres, which may be fertilized by the contents of other branches (antheridia) and so form egg-cases (oogonia).

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    In the autumn winged males appear, union between the sexes takes place and the females lay the fertilized eggs which are destined to carry the species through the cold months of winter.

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    In the instance of dichorionic-diamniotic twins, division of the fertilized egg occurs within 72 hours past fertilization, before the inner cell mass has developed.

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    In the two weeks leading up to ovulation, the uterus is being prepared for a potential pregnancy and develops a thicker lining for the fertilized egg to implant in to.

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    In very rare cases, the tubes can grow back together and an egg can successfully go on to be fertilized.

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    It is believed that from the nature of the cell in which she is ovipositing, the queen derives a reflex impulse to lay the appropriate egg - fertilized in the queen or worker cell, unfertilized in the drone cell, as previously mentioned.

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    It is not produced until implantation (when the fertilized egg attaches to the uterine wall).

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    It is the male element which fertilized the ovule.

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    It may also prevent an egg from being fertilized or prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.

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    It may be regarded as derived from a wholly dependent sporogonium not unlike that of some of the simpler Bryophyta; the latter are assumed to have arisen from primitive Algal forms, in which, as the first step in the interpolation of the second generation in the life cycle, the fertilized ovum gave rise to a group of swarm spores, each of which developed into a new sexual plant.

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    It may, however, well be that the capacity for wintering in the dry state has physiologically replaced the need for resistent fertilized eggs.

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    Ivory's ghost comes to them when they smoke the marijuana from the batch that was fertilized with his ashes, and he gives Silas and Jamal all of the answers to the THC exams.

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    Males in nearly all species appear once a year, when the last female generation, the ovigerous generation, is fertilized, and a few large ova are produced to carry on the continuity of the species over the winter.

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    Many women, but by no means all, experience implantation bleeding, which is the passing of a small amount of blood when the fertilized egg embeds itself in the lining of the uterus.

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    More than one egg is typically fertilized in order to ensure that the procedure will succeed.

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    No matter the supplier, their will be regional taste differences since the fruit will have been raised in different soils under a wide variety of conditions, with blossoms fertilized by a variety of bees.

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    Occasionally, a fertilized egg will implant in the fallopian tube and begin to develop there.

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    Of Phanerogams, only the Dryas octopetala covers small areas of the debris, interspersed with isolated Cochlearia, &c., and, where a layer of thinner clay has been deposited in sheltered places, the surface is covered with saxifrages, &c.; and a carpet of mosses allows the arctic willow (Salix polaris) to develop. Where a thin sheet of humus, fertilized by lemmings, has accumulated, a few flowering plants appear, but even so their brilliant flowers spring direct from the soil, concealing the developed leaflets, while their horizontally spread roots grow out of proportion; only the Salix lanata rises to 7 or 8 in., sending out roots I in.

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    On this view the origin of the sporophyte is looked for in the gradual development of sterile tissue in the generation arising from the fertilized ovum, and a consequent postponement of spore-formation.

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    Once fertilized, the eggs continue their journey to the uterus where they will implant themselves at regular intervals in the uterine wall.

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    Only a small proportion of these get fertilized, and still fewer ever emerge from the egg.

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    Oral contraceptives also change the uterine lining so that a fertilized egg cannot lodge there to develop.

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    Ovulation is the process in which the female egg travels to the uterus where it can be fertilized by sperm.

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    Ovulation is the process where the egg leaves the ovary and travels down the fallopian tube to be fertilized by the sperm.

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    Ovulation occurs midway between menstrual cycles and is the process when the egg leaves the fallopian tube and travels to the uterus to get fertilized by the male's sperm.

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    Parthenogenesis, or the development of an embryo from an egg-cell without the latter having been fertilized has been described in species of Thalictrum, Antennaria and Alchemilla.

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    Polysiphonia sp., transverse section through a branch, and at spores arising from fertilized carpogonium.

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    Progesterone-The hormone produced by the ovary after ovulation that prepares the uterine lining for a fertilized egg.

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    Seed are planted closely and the raised beds are kept watered, fertilized and mulched.

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    Since the egg can no longer reach the uterus, the chances of it being fertilized are very slim.

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    Since the egg is unable to travel down the fallopian tubes, they can't make their way to the uterus and they can't get fertilized.

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    Since the fertilized egg is implanted in an area too small for a growing fetus to survive and it can endanger the life of the mother if the organ where the egg is implanted ruptures, medical care is mandatory.

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    Since the male's sperm can live up to a week after delivery, breeding as soon as ovulation begins increases the chance that each ripened egg will become fertilized.

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    So they arranged to produce a number of fertilized embryos which were tested for compatibility with their daughter's DNA.

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    So we see how highly fertile these short-styled plants were when illegitimately fertilized with their own-form pollen by the aid of bees.

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    Some changes in the endometrium can prevent implantation should an egg be released and fertilized.

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    Some tulips will rebloom if they are planted at the proper depth in well-drained, properly fertilized soil and if the foliage is allowed to die back naturally and not trimmed while still green.

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    Sometime between 7-10 days after your last ovulation, the fertilized egg will implant itself into the uterine lining.

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    Spener died in 1705; but the movement, guided by Francke, fertilized from Halle the whole of Middle and North Germany.

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    Sperm can live in the reproductive tract of a female for five days and the egg can be fertilized for up to 24 hour after ovulation.

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    Sperm can live in the uterus for up to three days and if the device is removed, the egg may become fertilized.

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    Sprengel came very near to appreciating the meaning of cross-pollination in the life of plants when he states that "it seems that Nature is unwilling that any flower should be fertilized by its own pollen."

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    Suddenly the attraction ceases, and the oosphere is fertilized, probably at that moment, by the entry of a single antherozoid into the substance of the oosphere; a cell-wall is formed thereupon, in some cases in so short an interval as five minutes.

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    That is to say the animals are fed on what is produced from the fields fertilized with manure.

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    The Archegoniatae are characterized by a well-marked alternation of gametophyte and sporophyte generations; the former bears the sexual organs which are of characteristic structure and known as antheridia (male) and archegonia (female) respectively; the fertilized egg-cell on germination gives rise to the spore-bearing generation, and the spores on germination give rise directly or indirectly to a second gametophyte.

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    The body of a vascular plant is developed in the first place by repeated division of the fertilized egg and the growth of Develop- the products of division.

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    The copper is gradually released into the uterus, immobilizing sperm and blocking implantation of fertilized eggs.

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    The division of the fertilized egg in this case occurs nine to 13 days past fertilization or near the time of implantation in the uterus.

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    The doctor implants multiple fertilized eggs to ensure the best chance for a successful pregnancy.

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    The doubling process is provided by the act of fertilization, where an antherozoid with the single number of chromosomes fuses with an oosphere also with the single number to provide a fertilized egg with the double number.

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    The earlier advocates of artificial propagation and fish-hatching seem to have been under the impression that the thousands of fry resulting from a single act of artificial propagation meant a corresponding increase in the numbers of edible fish when once they had been deposited in suitable waters; and also that artificial fertilization ensured a greater proportion of fertilized eggs than the natural process.

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    The egg consists of a fertilized ovum and a mass of yolk-cells.

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    The egg consists of an outer casing, or chorion, inside which is the females fertilized ovum.

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    The egg lives approximately 24 hours and must be fertilized during this time or pregnancy won't occur.

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    The eggs are fertilized, practically in the ovary, and develop in situ.

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    The female is fertilized by the male and three or four days later lays a single egg - the winter egg - and then dies.

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    The female lays two kinds of eggs - " summer-eggs," which develop without fertilization, and " winter-eggs" or resting eggs, which require to be fertilized.

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    The female will continue to be in heat and allow subsequent breedings until the eggs release a chemical message that they have been fertilized.

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    The fertilized egg charged with food reserves rests for a considerable period, surrounded by its cortex, the whole having assumed a reddish-brown colour.

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    The fertilized egg-cell (oospore) forms a filamentous structure, the proernbryo, from a restricted basal portion of which one or more embryos develop, one only as a rule reaching maturity.

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    The fertilized ova, provided with yolk and a shell, are next transferred to the "uterus" along which they travel to the exterior.

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    The filaments arising from the carpogonia grow into long thin tubes, which fuse with special cells rich in protoplasm contents; and from these points issue isolated tufts of sporogenous filaments, several of which may form the product of one fertilized female cell.

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    The first effect of fertilization is the occlusion of the trichogyne from the fertilized carpogonium.

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    The general view was, that the embryo originated in the ovule, which was in some obscure manner fertilized by the pollen.

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    The gestational carrier was prepared and ready to receive the fertilized eggs, so it would happen in the next day or so.

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    The gorged and fertilized female quits her hold of the host, and falling to the ground, proceeds after a short delay to lay her eggs in some sheltered spot.

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    The great boundary rivers flow through low-lying valleys fertilized by their overflow or percolation, while a high bank leads up to the central upland, which, though naturally dry and unproductive except where irrigated by wells, has been transformed by various canal systems. This favoured region may be regarded as the granary of upper India.

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    The hormone changes the environment of the uterus; sperm is unable to enter the cervix and a fertilized egg cannot implant in the uterine wall.

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    The I, Oogonium (og) with the an5, Fertilized oogonium sur theridial branch (az) applied rounded by two layers of to its surface.

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    The infection affects the reproductive tract and causes pelvic inflammatory disease, infertility, and ectopic pregnancy (when the fertilized egg implants somewhere other than in the uterus).

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    The infertility specialist may freeze additional fertilized embryos in case a future treatment cycle is necessary.

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    The initial segmentation of the embryo is dependent upon concentration biases in the fertilized egg.

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    The lowland, or Tehama, is hot and generally sterile; it contains oases, however, near the foot of the mountains, fertilized and irrigated by hill streams and supporting many large villages and towns.

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    The male possesses elaborate copulatory structures of a chitinous nature, and the eggs are fertilized in the female without even quitting the place where they are formed on the wall of the reticular gonocoel.

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    The offspring of the virgin females are in most of these instances females; but among the bees and wasps parthenogenesis occurs normally and always results in the development of males, the " queen " insect laying either a fertilized or unfertilized egg at will.

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    The oosphere is in all cases fertilized while still within the oogonium, the antherozoids being admitted by means of a pore.

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    The ova are fertilized in the genital duct, and before their escape have undergone the earliest stages of segmentation.

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    The ova pass out of the mouth and are fertilized externally.

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    The pill contains small amounts of the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which regulate ovulation, thicken the mucus in the cervix, or prevent implantation of the fertilized egg.

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    The secretion of LH is what causes the most mature follicle in the ovary to burst and release a egg that is ready to be fertilized.

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    The segmentation of the fertilized nucleus results in the formation of a number of nuclei which arrange themselves around the periphery of the egg and, the protoplasm surrounding them becoming constricted, a blastoderm or layer of cells, enclosing the central yolk, is formed.

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    The summer crops (millet, sesame, figs, melons, grapes, olives, &c.) are fertilized by the heavy " dews " which are one of the most remarkable climatic features of the country and to a large extent atone for the total lack of rain for one half the year.

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    The thin-walled eggs are often termed "summer-eggs," the fertilized ones "winter" or "ephippial" eggs (by parity with the phyllopod Entomostraca, q.v.).

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    Then the fertilized egg must travel to the woman's uterus (womb), where it lodges in the uterus lining and develops into a fetus.

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    There might not even be one fertilized egg, and even if there were two, pregnancy wasn't guaranteed.

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    There, the eggs are fertilized and continue to develop.

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    They are attracted to the flower by its colour or its perfume; they seek, collect or feed on its honey, and while so doing they remove the pollen from the anther and convey it to another flower, there to germinate on the stigma when its tubes travel down the style to the ovary where their contents ultimately fuse with the "oosphere" or immature egg, which becomes in consequence fertilized, and forms a seed which afterwards develops into a new plant (see article Angiosperms).

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    They enacted the story of his birth and life and death; the Earth, the Mother, is fertilized only by an act of violence by her own child; the representative of the god was probably slain each year by a cruel death, just as the god himself died.

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    They have two fertilized eggs and they want final consent.

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    They may also prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus.

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    This creates the potential for two separate eggs to be fertilized at the same time.

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    This ensures that you don't miss the small window of opportunity in which the egg is ready to be fertilized.

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    This individuality is the result of the particular selection of qualities it receives from its parents, a selection that obviously differs in different cases, as, save in the case of "identical twins," which are supposed to be the product of a single fertilized ovum, no individual pair of brothers, or pair consisting of brother and sister, are alike.

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    This means that any female flower can be fertilized by pollen from any male.

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    This phenomenon is usually attributed to the timing of when the fertilized egg was split and may be identified in nearly 25 percent of identical twins.

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    This remarkable double fertilization as it has been called, although only recently discovered, has been proved to take place in widely-separated families, and both in Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons, and there is every probability that, perhaps with variations, it is the normal process in Angiosperms. After impregnation the fertilized oosphere immediately surrounds itself with a cell-wall and becomes the oospore which by a process of growth forms the embryo of the new plant.

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    Thus in Erythronium and Limnocharis the fertilized egg may form a mass of tissue on which several embryos are produced.

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    Thus, De Vilmorin records the presence of turgid wheats among seedlings raised from a common wheat fertilized with the pollen of a hard variety, and spelt wheats among the descendants of a common crossed with a turgid wheat.

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    Tubal pregnancies are caused in instances where something blocks the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.

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    Twins can also result from a fertilized egg that divides slightly later in development.

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    Very early in pregnancy, vaginal bleeding can be caused by the fertilized egg nesting into the lining of the uterus.

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    Weismann has also ingeniously argued from the structure of the egg-cell and sperm-cell, and from the way in which, and the period at which, they are derived in the course of the growth of the embryo from the egg - from the fertilized egg-cell - that it is impossible (it would be better to say highly improbable) that an alteration in parental structure could produce any exactly representative change in the substance of the germ or sperm-cells.

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    Weismann, however, doubts these conclusions, and having found a spermaster in every one of the eggs that he examined from workercells, and in only one out of 272 eggs taken from drone-cells, he supports Dzierzon's view, explaining the single exception mentioned above as a mistake of the queen, she having laid inadvertently this single fertilized egg in a drone instead of in a worker cell.

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    Wheat is grown year after year without rotation - except in a few cases - on a third or more of our wheat acreage; not one acre in fifty is directly fertilized for the crop, and only a minimum amount of attention is given to the betterment of seed stock.

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    When a fertilized egg implants itself into the blood lining of the uterus, some women experience mild cramping.

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    When an egg is fertilized, it travels through the fallopian tubes where it implants into the uterus.

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    When tubes are cut but remain their original size, the ends can reattach over time, making it possible for an egg to make it down to the uterus where it can be fertilized.

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    When you figure in the fact that the sperm can survive in the canal for a few days, some eggs could actually have been fertilized a day or more after the final breeding.

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    When your ovaries release a fertile egg during ovulation, it is typically only available to be fertilized for about one day, or around 12 to 24 hours.

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    Whether the fertilized egg shall develop into a queen or a worker depends upon the nature of the food.

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    While thus carried about by the host-insect, the female is fertilized by the free-flying male, and gives birth to a number of tiny triungulin larvae.

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    With the photos in her hands, the fertilized eggs were a thing of the past.

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    Without hormones, a normal, healthy woman will release an egg once a month, and her uterus will build up a thick, blood-rich lining to receive the egg in case it gets fertilized by a man's sperm.