The mature egg can then be fertilized by a sperm cell, which creates a zygote — a fertilized egg cell. After fertilization, the zygote needs to successfully implant into the uterine lining ...

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The zygote that results from fertilization inherits one nuclear allele of each gene from each parent (that is, at the three example loci, it is Aa, Bb and Cc). By contrast, the cytoplasmic ...

Your little zygote has now officially turned into an embryo. About eight weeks after fertilization (roughly week 10 of pregnancy), the embryo will turn into what’s known as a fetus. From there ...