The process of embryogenesis begins with an egg or ovum being fertilized by a sperm cell to form a zygote. The zygote is a single diploid cell, which will ultimately multiply through mitotic division ...

New work by scientists in the U.S. and China shows how a fertilized egg cell, or zygote, hits ‘reset’ so that the newly formed embryo can develop according to its own genetic program. The study was ...

In development of human, the egg cell (from a women) and the sperm cell (from a man) fuse together to form a single cell called the zygote. The zygote divides multiple times to form 216 different cell ...