Fun Facts About Gerald Ford. 1  His middle name is Rudolph. 2  He nearly died in World War II when a typhoon hit his aircraft carrier and it caught fire. 3  Around 400 Eagle Scouts attended Ford's funeral and took part in the procession. 4  His number 48 football jersey was retired at the University of Michigan.
Then, the process of becoming pregnant takes several days â the fertilized egg (now called a blastocyst) has only just begun its long journey. Once the egg is fertilized, it now has to travel all the way up into the uterus for implantation to take place.
After a female egg is fertilized, the resulting one-celled organism becomes known as a zygote. Once this has occured, the zygote begins a two-week period of rapid cell division and will eventually become an embryo. The zygote divides through a process known as mitosis, in which each cell doubles by dividing into two cells. This two-week stage is known as the germinal period of development and covers the time of conception to the implantation of the embryo in the uterus. In most cases, each male and female sex cell contain 23 chromosomes.