zygote
The diploid cell formed by the union of two gametes.
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Zygote - A diploid fertilized egg resultant from the joining of a haploid sperm and a haploid egg.
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Heterozygote- An organism whose cells have one or more sets of unlike alleles.
High-lining- The underside of a forest canopy that is uniformly cropped by deer at the highest level they can browse. A browseline.
heterozygote search for term- n. (Gr. heteros, other; zygon, yoke) an organism or cell having two different alleles at corresponding loci on homologous chromosomes.hibernaculum search for term- n.
As time passes, the zygote becomes the embryo of the new plant. The seeds of flowering plants come in a great variety of sizes, shapes, and textures, but the embryonic plants contained within have the same basic design, ...
fuses with the egg, forming a zygote that grows by mitosis and develops into a multicellular embryo in the seed.
-- in angiosperms, when one of the from the pollen unites with the egg forming a zygote and the other sperm unites with the polar nucleus forming the triploid (3n) endosperm.
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