| What species is a tadpole? Where does it belong? Is it a frog? Not yet, but it belongs to frogs because they are the ones who conceived it. So a zygote, while it does not look like a human you would recognise will become a human you will recognise. Just like the tadpole is a stage in the development of a frog a fetus is a stage in the development of a human. They are both alive.. |