The fourteen meter-long skeletal remains of a sperm whale hang directly above it.

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The result of fertilization now is a new cell that is the union of the sperm and the egg, and it's called the zygote and it contains the diploid number of chromosomes, genes.

受精就是产生,一个精卵结合的新细胞,称为受精卵,它含有二倍体的染色体基因

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This one cell, this one fertilized cell which is unique because it's the - its chromosome contains the combination of the sperm and the egg, develops into an embryo and then on birth develops into a human.

这个受精卵,是独一无二的,因为它的染色体,包含了精子和卵子的组合,并由此发育成为一个胚胎,之后形成一个人类个体

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One copy of the chromosome comes from the egg and one copy of each chromosome comes from the sperm, so this you know about.

其中一条染色体来自卵子,另一条来自精子,这些你们都知道

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