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If an egg is fertilized, it is considered a zygote. As it matures and divides over a period of two weeks, it becomes an embryo, and then later in the pregnancy it will be considered a fetus. The zygote is a diploid cell that contains chromosomes from both the haploid sperm and haploid egg cell.
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