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Each single one of these (in healthy men) is capable of fertilising a woman's egg-cell and giving rise to a new human being.
When the pollen has been placed on this surface it grows, germinates, and part of it unites with the egg-cell of the young seed.
Then chromosomes of definite size and form, and corresponding in number to those present in the fertilised egg-cell, again appear.
The latter he regarded as arising directly from the egg-cell, and never from somatic cells.
Thirdly, the reproductive cells are derived from the egg-cell just in the same way as other tissue cells are derived from it.
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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to egg cell, such as: egg, gamete, oosphere, seed, and spore.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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