Infertile couples may wish to use an assistive reproductive technology, such as __________, which removes the women's egg from her uterus and fertilizes it with her partner's sperm in a Petri dish.

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Infertile couples may wish to use an assistive reproductive technology, such as __________, which removes the women's egg from her uterus and fertilizes it with her partner's sperm in a Petri dish.​

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In vitro fertilization (IVF) involves removing the egg from the woman's ovaries and fertilizing it with sperm in a laboratory dish. This allows for the fertilized egg (embryo) to be implanted into the woman's uterus. Artificial insemination (B) involves the direct injection of sperm into a woman's uterus, without removing the egg. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (C) involves injecting a single sperm directly into an egg to fertilize it outside of the woman's body. In vitro insemination (D) is not a recognized term in assisted reproductive technologies.

Infertile Couples May Wish to Use an Assistive Reproductive Technology