Principles of Biology
2nd Edition
ISBN: 9781259875120
Author: Robert Brooker, Eric P. Widmaier Dr., Linda Graham Dr. Ph.D., Peter Stiling Dr. Ph.D.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Fertilization is the process of conflation of one male and one female gamete to give birth to a new offspring by forming a single celled zygote, which later develops through mitosis and becomes a fully functioned individual.
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