Question

Salma saw an advertisement on television about Test -tube baby. Does it mean that

babies are grown in test tubes? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

test tube babies is another name for IVF procedure, where sperm and eggs are collected fertilized in laboratory and the resulting healthy embryo is then transferred into uterus. so babies are not grown in test tubes

Answer 2

The test tube baby is the modern way of artificial human reproduction with the IVF method.

In this method the egg is fertilized with the sperm outside of the woman body.

The whole process is done in a laboratory measurements and precautions.

Test tube is just a name of this method,the size of the normal human baby is way more larger than a mere test tube.