production of a fertilized egg called a zygote, initiating embryonic development. Scientists discovered the dynamics of human fertilization in the 19th century...

Double fertilization or double fertilisation (see spelling differences) is a complex fertilization mechanism of flowering plants (angiosperms). This process...

Internal fertilization is the union of an egg and sperm cell during sexual reproduction inside the female body. Internal fertilization, unlike its counterpart...

External fertilization is a mode of reproduction in which a male organism's sperm fertilizes a female organism's egg outside of the female's body. It is...

secretions of the anterior section of the hen's oviduct during the passage of the egg. It forms around fertilized or unfertilized egg yolks. The primary...

formed by a fertilization event between two gametes. The zygote's genome is a combination of the DNA in each gamete, and contains all of the genetic information...

After fertilization, an embryo develops, nourished by nutrients contained in the egg. It then hatches from the egg, outside the mother's body. See egg for...

happens in the fallopian tube; the fertilized egg can then proceed to try and implant on the uterus's lining. During fertilization the egg cell plays...

mitosis that are transported down the pollen tube to the ovule where they are released for fertilization of the egg cell. Coenogamete "gamete | Definition...

vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating...