Crossword-Solution: ZYGOTE
We have 23 clues for the answer “ZYGOTE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| FIRST cell of a new individual | 1 answer |
| the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum | 1 answer |
| fertilised egg cell | 1 answer |
| Your ultimate beginning | 1 answer |
| Very early embryo | 1 answer |
| UNION of two gametes, product of the | 1 answer |
| Two-gamete cell | 1 answer |
| OVUM and sperm nuclei, fusing product of | 1 answer |
| It's made from two gametes | 1 answer |
| INDIVIDUAL, first cell of an | 1 answer |
| Fertilized egg cell | 1 answer |
| FUSING product of ovum and sperm nuclei | 1 answer |
| FERTILISATION product of ovum and sperm nuclei | 1 answer |
| Cell resulting from two gametes fusing | 1 answer |
| Cell formed from two gametes | 1 answer |
| Cell formed by fusion of gametes | 1 answer |
| CELL of a new individual, first | 1 answer |
| CELL formed by union of two gametes | 1 answer |
| A cell resulting from the joining of two gametes | 1 answer |
| Baby-to-be | 3 answers |
| Fallopian tube traveler | 4 answers |
| Fertilized egg | 4 answers |
| Start of something big? | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ZYGOTE (5)
This, however, appeared later as a product of the further evolution of the zygote, and the reduction division was correspondingly postponed.
But strictly speaking they ARE acquired characters, for the zygote at first has none of the characters which it subsequently acquires, but only the power of acquiring them in response to the action of the environment.
Firstly, there are those variations consequent upon a variation in the constitution of the protoplasm of a particular zygote, and independent of the environment in which the organism develops, save in so far as this simply calls them forth: these are the so-called genetic or mutational variations.
The machinery when it starts (in the new zygote) has the power of grinding out certain results, which we call the characters of the organism.
The question is brought home to us when we ask what is a bud-sport, such as a nectarine appearing on a peach-tree? From one point of view, it is simply a mutation appearing in asexual reproduction; from another it is one of these successional characters ("growth variations") which constitute the life-history of the zygote, for it appears in the same zygote which first produces a peach.
Quotes with ZYGOTE (3)
Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.
To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...
If a curiously selective plague came along and killed all people of intermediate height, 'tall' and 'short' would come to have just as precise a meaning as 'bird' or 'mammal'. The same is true of human ethics and law. Our legal and moral systems are deeply species-bound. The director of a zoo is legally entitled to 'put down' a chimpanzee that is surplus to requirements, while any suggestion that he might 'put down' a redundant keeper or ticket-seller would be greeted with ho…
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (2002–2023).