Cells Quote by Keith L. Moore

A zygote is the beginning of a new human being (i.e., an embryo).

— Keith L. Moore

Although life is a continuous process, fertilization is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new, genetically distinct human organism is thereby formed....…

— Ronan O'Rahilly

“Once an egg has been fertilized and managed to attach itself to the wall of the uterus and gastrulates (produces the three layers), the…

— Bill Nye

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Conception is the beginning of human life. From the time that an ovum is fertilized a new life begins that is neither that of…

— Declaration on Procured Abortion Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1974

“I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.”

— Self

After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being.

— Jerome Lejeune

Increasingly committed to human studies, I sought to collect several immature human oocytes from pieces of excised ovarian tissue, mature and fertilize them in…

— Robert Edwards

This constitution we designate by the word genotype. The word is entirely independent of any hypothesis; it is fact, not hypothesis that different zygotes…

— Wilhelm Johannsen

“At conception, we start as a single cell that contains all the DNA needed to build our body. The plan for that entire body…

— Neil Shubin

The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears.…

— Marcello Malpighi

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.…

— Todd Akin