What’s the difference between a gamete and a zygote?
A gamete is a mature, functional sex cell (i.e., an egg or sperm) that can unite with a gamete of the opposite sex.
A zygote is what results when the two gametes fuse.
It was brought on by the awarding of the 1932 Nobel Prize in physics to Werner Heisenberg for his uncertainty principle. The principle states that you cannot accurately know both the position and momentum of an atomic particle at the same time. Einstein believed that the principle made a mockery of cause and effect.
The 34.5-foot, 10,000-pound surface-to-surface Pershing missile has a range of approximately 400 miles.
Shooting stars are not stars but meteorites, particles from space entering and burning up in the earth’s atmosphere.
There are about 6,000 to 10,000 species of “true” grasses, members of the family Poaceae. They are the most widespread and numerous of all the flowering plants.
A knockout punch causes a chain reaction in the victim’s circulatory system. The supply of blood pools in the abdomen, reducing circulation to the brain, and resulting in loss of consciousness.
A cosmic year is the length of time it takes the sun to complete one revolution around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. A cosmic year is about 225 million earth years. The sun is between 20 and 21 cosmic years old.