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

Grossniklaus' team has now shown that the quiescent egg cell is also in this phase.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 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

If a ripe archegonium is placed in water, it soon opens at the top, and the contents of the canal cells are forced out, leaving a clear channel down to the egg cell.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton