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> [The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/the-egg-of-every-species-of-animal-or-plant-carries-a-definite-number/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

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> [For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which together constitute a pair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/for-each-chromosome-contributed-by-the-sperm-there-is-a-corresponding/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

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## Other authors on Egg

## More by Thomas Hunt Morgan

> [The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/the-media-has-enormous-power-the-media-is-undergoing-huge-changes-now/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [“Except for the rare cases of plastid inheritance, the inheritance of all known cofactors can be sufficiently accounted for by the presence of genes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/except-for-the-rare-cases-of-plastid-inheritance-the-inheritance-of/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [One of the most amazing developments in the history of biology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/one-of-the-most-amazing-developments-in-the-history-of-biology/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [Some things are better done than described.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/some-things-are-better-done-than-described/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/the-egg-of-every-species-of-animal-or-plant-carries-a-definite-number/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/two-years-work-wasted-i-have-been-breeding-those-flies-for-all-that/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [For each chromosome contributed by the sperm there is a corresponding chromosome contributed by the egg, there are two chromosomes of each kind, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/for-each-chromosome-contributed-by-the-sperm-there-is-a-corresponding/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/within-the-period-of-human-history-we-do-not-know-of-a-single/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/realizing-how-often-ingenious-speculation-in-the-complex-biological/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

> [That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-hunt-morgan/that-the-fundamental-aspects-of-heredity-should-have-turned-out-to-be/)

[Thomas Hunt Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-hunt-morgan/)

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