Egg facts for kids
Egg can mean different things:
- Egg (biology)
- Ovum, the female reproductive cell
- Zygote, a fertilised ovum
- Cleidoic egg: the type of egg produced by amniotes (reptiles, birds, mammals)
- Ovum, the female reproductive cell
- Egg (food)
Images for kids
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Eggs of various birds, a reptile, various cartilaginous fish, a cuttlefish and various butterflies and moths. (Click on image for key)
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Six commercial eggs — view from the top against a white background
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Salmon fry hatching. The larva has grown around the remains of the yolk and the remains of the soft, transparent egg are discarded.
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Guillemot eggs
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Turtle eggs in a nest dug by a female common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
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Orange-peel doris (Acanthodoris lutea), a nudibranch, in tide pool laying eggs
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Microlecithal eggs from the roundworm Toxocara
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Microlecithal eggs from the flatworm Paragonimus westermani
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Frogspawn is mesolecithal.
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A baby tortoise begins to emerge "fully developed" from its macrolecithal egg.
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Chocolate Easter eggs hidden as part of an egg hunt
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An average whooping crane egg is 102 mm (4.0 in) long and weighs 208 g (7.3 oz)
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Eurasian oystercatcher eggs camouflaged in the nest
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Egg of a senegal parrot, a bird that nests in tree holes, on a 1 cm (0.39 in) grid
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Finch egg next to American dime
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Eggs of duck, goose, guineafowl and chicken
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Egg of an emu
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Egg from a chicken compared to a 1 euro coin, great tit egg and a corn grain
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A spherical chicken egg
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Insect eggs, in this case those of the Emperor gum moth, are often laid on the underside of leaves.
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Fish eggs, such as these herring eggs are often transparent and fertilized after laying.
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A Testudo hermanni emerging fully developed from a reptilian egg.
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A Schistosoma mekongi egg.
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Eggs of Huffmanela hamo, a nematode parasite in a fish
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See also
In Spanish: Huevo (biología) para niños
