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egg cell

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egg cell
n.
See egg1.
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Noun1.egg cellegg cell - the female reproductive cell; the female gamete
ovum
egg - animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
gamete - a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
ootid - mature ovum after penetration by sperm but before the formation of a zygote
ovule - a small or immature ovum
female reproductive system - the reproductive system of females


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The latter procedure removes the nucleus of a somatic cell and transfers it to an enucleated egg cell.
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In this technology, an egg cell donated by a woman--not a new embryo, but a cell with no full human genome and no chance of becoming a person--would have its nucleus removed and a nucleus from a patient put in its place.
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The fertilized egg cell begins to divide and grow to become a blastocyst (ball of about 100 cells), then an embryo, and finally a fetus (unborn animal eight weeks after fertilization).
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