Saturday, November 07, 2009

Zygote!



Electron microscope photograph of human sperm and egg. Is that a flagellum, or are you just happy to see me? :-)

(Someone sent me a bunch of electron microscope photos and I found this one really striking!)

Hard to believe that thing eventually grows into one (or two!) of these: :-)

4 comments:

  1. I can't log to your Gmail account to see the image... :-P

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  2. Oops, should be fixed now...

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  3. Are you kids racially mixed or not? I am just curious because sometimes I cannot tell when children are young.

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  4. Cute kids by the way; hopefully my question was not too blunt!

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