Anyway, we got the power back without losing a single embryo.
In the time it takes a single human embryo to develop, an insect can produce over four hundred billion of his own kind.
Rather than containing a single embryo, the seed is actually a dried fruit and may contain one to four embryos.
The species is unusually large for a ghost shrimp, but despite that appears to brood only a single embryo.
"Every single embryo, I treat them as if they were mine," she said.
Sometimes two tiny embryos developing inside their mother will fuse together into a single embryo and continue developing.
Union had been completed, and the two spores became a single embryo.
Technology Livestock breeders can clone large numbers of identical animals from a single embryo.
What's more, twins can then sometimes fuse back together into a single embryo, known as a chimera.
At the time, the government estimated that 70 to 80 lines, each one a colony derived from a single embryo, would be available.