Tina and Linda Want to Start a Family

Tina and Linda want to start a family. Linda has a genetic condition that she would prefer not to pass on to their child. Therefore, Tina will be the biological mother, but she had her fallopian tubes tied and now is unable to get pregnant. They have opted for a procedure in which Tina's ova are removed from her ovaries and a man's sperm are used to fertilize the ova in a laboratory. This method of fertilization is known as __________.

A) natural insemination
B) artificial insemination
C) surrogate fertilization
D) in vitro fertilization