egg cell
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Based on such self-organization, the mammalian embryo develops from a single fertilized egg cell into a multicellular organism.
From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024
Viatina-19’s owner, Pereira, said she gets special treatment to boost egg cell production, but would thrive were she put to pasture — where almost all his elite cattle feed.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
An error during egg cell production could result in two fused or incompletely separated cells, one with a W chromosome and one with a Z chromosome.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024
When parthenogenesis happens, the egg cell in the female's body divides enough times it needs in order to create half the genes required to procreate.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2023
When we turn to the starting point of human development, we find an egg cell and a spermatozoon, which unite and whose nuclei intermingle.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various
