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Reproductive Health
Assisted Reproductive Technologies: IVF
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Concepts tested
- In vitro fertilisation and embryo transfer
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2003 AIPMT 1 question
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Test tube baby means a baby born whenIn the test tube baby programme (in vitro fertilisation followed by embryo transfer, IVF-ET), ova from the wife or a donor and sperms from the husband or a donor are collected.
Fertilisation takes place outside the body, in the laboratory, under conditions similar to those in the body.
The zygote or early embryo (up to 8 blastomeres) is transferred into the fallopian tube (ZIFT), or embryos of more than 8 cells into the uterus (IUT), where it implants and develops normally until birth.
So the baby does not develop in a test tube; only fertilisation happens outside the body.
So a test tube baby is one born when the ovum is fertilised externally and thereafter implanted in the uterus.