What is a zygote?

Answer 1

To put it in a simple way, Zygote is the newly fertilized female cell or ovule.

Answer 2

A zygote (Greek: ζυγωτόν) is a cell that is the result of fertilization. That is, two haploid cells—usually (but not always) an ovum from a female and a sperm cell from a male—merge into a single diploid cell called the zygote (or zygocyte).

Animal zygotes undergo mitotic cell divisions to become an embryo. Other organisms may undergo meiotic cell division at this time (for more information refer to biological life cycles).

Twins and multiple births can be monozygotic (identical) or dizygotic (fraternal), meaning they arise from one or several (strictly, two) fertilisation events.

Answer 3

A zygote (Greek: ζυγωτόν) is a cell that is the result of fertilization. That is, two haploid cells—usually (but not always) an ovum from a female and a sperm cell from a male—merge into a single diploid cell called the zygote (or zygocyte).

Animal zygotes undergo mitotic cell divisions to become an embryo. Other organisms may undergo meiotic cell division at this time (for more information refer to biological life cycles).

Twins and multiple births can be monozygotic (identical) or dizygotic (fraternal), meaning they arise from one or several (strictly, two) fertilisation events.

Answer 4

Zygote is diploid. So yes after sperm(n) haploid and egg(n) haploid mix they form a zygote(2n). Diploid.

Also in terms of cells 2 cells together=zygote.

Answer 5

A zygote is actually a single cell of a baby in its mother's wound.

Answer 6

when a sperm enters the egg cell, i believe the egg cell then is called a zygote.

Answer 7

Isn't that the name for a newly fertilized egg cell when it has just started to divide?

Answer 8

female sex cell