Pregnancy only happens if the ovum is fertilized.
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Fertilized
Synonyms for "fertilized" (5 found)
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In short it was only after many failures, and after many barren epochs during which, for a variety of reasons, the enterprise was neglected, that the Fourth Men did at length fashion two individuals almost precisely of the type they had originally designed. These were produced from a single fertilized ovum, in laboratory conditions. Identical twins, but of opposite sexes, they became the Adam and Eve of a new and glorious human species, the Fifth Men.
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This hen is sitting on an egg, but the egg won't hatch because it has not been fertilized.
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Some twins develop from two separate eggs that are fertilized at the same time. These babies are called fraternal twins. One can be a girl and the other a boy.
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