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Zygote vs Endosperm - What's the difference?

zygote | endosperm |

As nouns the difference between zygote and endosperm

is that zygote is zygote (fertilised egg cell) while endosperm is (biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid.

zygote

English

(wikipedia zygote)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fertilized egg cell.

    • Hyponyms

    * homozygote * heterozygote

    Derived terms

    () * zygotic

    Related terms

    () * dizygotic * monozygotic * zygosity

    endosperm

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid

    • Derived terms

    * endospermic

    External links

    * ("endosperm" on Wikipedia)