egg cell
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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
The 100 or so organelles in sperm are swamped by hundreds of thousands of mitochondria embedded in each egg cell -- each carrying the 37 genes in mitochondrial DNA.
From Science Daily • Sep. 18, 2023
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
J, a single egg cell surrounded by spermatozoids.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton
