What is a fertilised ovum?
According to medical and genetic textbooks, the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in a single fertilised human egg carries as much data as 50 sets of the 33-volume Encyclopedia Britannica. These fifty sets of encyclopedia are equivalent to 1,373,625,000 words which, if typewritten in a single line, would stretch for 14,453 miles, more than halfway around the world. For those with an affinity for computers, this is equivalent to about 15,000 megabytes of data. This information would fill 41,700 5-1/4 inch (360 kilobyte) floppy disks, or would make a stack of such disks 280 feet high, about as tall as a thirty-story skyscraper. If a person read this mountain of information at 300 words a minute for a standard 40-hour week, he would begin on college graduation day and not finish until retirement at age 58 – a total of 37 years! And all of this data is packed into a one-celled organism barely visible to the unaided human eye. After conception in the Fallopian tubes, the new human being travels s
