Constitute Quote by 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,…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

Although each egg cell produced by a woman carries a single X chromosome, the sperm cells produced by a man carry either an X…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“Our prototypical behavior has occurred. How was it influenced by events when the egg and sperm that formed that person joined, creating their genome—the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Your chromosomes have combined beautifully.

— Ramandeep Singh

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

“The human egg is a Mrs. Bennet, desperate to marry off her daughters...It is a truth universally acknowledged that a sperm must be in…

— Daryl Gregory

Man comes not from an egg but from an animalcule that is found in male sperm.

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the…

— Walter Sutton

“Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.”

— Marianne Moore

My genetic interests persist in the area of the control of human development. Something must be fundamentally flawed with a reproductive system that allows…

— Robert Edwards

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But…

— Richard Dawkins

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two…

— Christian Lous Lange