Fertilised egg dividing. Illustration showing a fertilised ovum (egg cell) which has divided into two cells (blastomeres) by mitosis. After fertilisat

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Fertilised egg dividing. Illustration showing a fertilised ovum (egg cell) which has divided into two cells (blastomeres) by mitosis. After fertilisation the nuclei of the sperm cell and the ovum fuse to form a zygote. The zygote then undergoes repeated mitosis (cell division). Cell division occurs approximately every twenty hours, to form a cluster of cells known as a morula, which continues to divide to form a blastocyst, and subsequently the embryo.

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