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Chapter 7 Fertilization: Beginning a New Organism

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• 7.1 The Origins of Fertilization Research
  • Early History of Fertilization
  • Anton von Leeuwenhoek and his perception of spermatozoa
  • Homunculus
  • The Reemergence of Sex
  • Gametes and Spores
  • The Mechanism of Fertilization
  • On the Nature of the Process of Fertilization
  • The Invention of Artificial Parthenogenesis
• 7.2 The Egg and Its Environment
• 7.3 Blocks to Polyspermy
  • On Multipolar Mitosis as a Means of Analysis of the Cell Nucleus
  • Theodor Boveri: The Life of a Great Biologist 1862-1915
  • The Fertilization Reaction in Echinarachnius Parma
• 7.4 Rules of Evidence
• 7.5 The Non-equivalence of Mammalian Pronuclei
• 7.6 A Social Critique of Fertilization Research

Dev Tutorials

• Dev Tutorials: Find It / Lose It / Move It
• Dev Tutorials: Capacitation
• Dev Tutorials: Legends of the Sperm

Watch Development

• Watch Development 7.1
• Watch Development 7.2
• Watch Development 7.3
• Watch Development 7.4
• Watch Development 7.5

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