egg cell
noun
: ovum
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The egg cell is then transferred to the uterus of a sow. 
Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022 Amazing new technologies in developmental biology and genetics research are allowing scientists to begin to answer long standing questions such as – how does a single fertilized egg cell transform into a complex animal? David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022 Unlike the main repository of nuclear DNA, the mitochondria are like hundreds of thousands of branch libraries of genetic information floating around in the cytoplasm of a human egg cell. Stephen S. Hall, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021 The team’s method involved removing the nucleus from a Scottish Blackface sheep’s egg cell and electroshocking it with a mammary gland cell from a Finn Dorset sheep to enable the two to fuse. Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022 There isn’t a surviving mammoth genome that’s complete enough to implant directly into an egg cell, so cloning is out of the question. Matt Reynolds, Wired, 9 Feb. 2022 When a cell divides in two to make an egg cell, the other half becomes a polar body, which contains a near-identical copy of DNA. Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021 The cell is from a hydatidiform mole, a kind of reproductive growth that represents an extremely early, unviable union between a sperm and an egg cell that has no nucleus. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021 In 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute cloned a cell taken from the mammary gland of a 6-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell taken from a Scottish blackface sheep, and the result was Dolly. Washington Post, 21 May 2021 See More
Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022 Amazing new technologies in developmental biology and genetics research are allowing scientists to begin to answer long standing questions such as – how does a single fertilized egg cell transform into a complex animal? David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2022 Unlike the main repository of nuclear DNA, the mitochondria are like hundreds of thousands of branch libraries of genetic information floating around in the cytoplasm of a human egg cell. Stephen S. Hall, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021 The team’s method involved removing the nucleus from a Scottish Blackface sheep’s egg cell and electroshocking it with a mammary gland cell from a Finn Dorset sheep to enable the two to fuse. Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022 There isn’t a surviving mammoth genome that’s complete enough to implant directly into an egg cell, so cloning is out of the question. Matt Reynolds, Wired, 9 Feb. 2022 When a cell divides in two to make an egg cell, the other half becomes a polar body, which contains a near-identical copy of DNA. Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2021 The cell is from a hydatidiform mole, a kind of reproductive growth that represents an extremely early, unviable union between a sperm and an egg cell that has no nucleus. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2021 In 1996, researchers at the Roslin Institute cloned a cell taken from the mammary gland of a 6-year-old Finn Dorset sheep and an egg cell taken from a Scottish blackface sheep, and the result was Dolly. Washington Post, 21 May 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1880, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
egg cell
noun
: a female reproductive cell of animals and plants that can unite with a sperm cell to form a new individual
Medical Definition
egg cell
noun
: ovum
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