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
The first wall in the embryo is nearly at right angles to the axis of the archegonium and divides the egg cell into nearly equal parts.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton
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