"Fertilized egg" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mass of protoplasm containing a nucleus, and corresponds, therefore, to one of the cells, most closely to the egg-cell or spermatozoon of higher animals. If every living being is descended from a single cell, the fertilized egg, it is not hard to believe that all higher animals are descended from an ancestor having the general structure or lack of structure of ...
— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler |
