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An egg cell is the female reproductive cell that contains half the genetic information needed to create a new organism. It matters because when an egg cell combines with a sperm cell during fertilization, the two halves come together to form a complete genetic blueprint for a developing baby.
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Research
118,573 papers- The egg of Xenopus laevis: a model system for studying cell activation.ReviewCell differentiation and development : the official journal of the International Society of Developmental Biologists · 1989Charbonneau M, Grandin NDOI: 10.1016/0922-3371(89)90045-2
- Cell cycle in egg cell and its progression during zygotic development in rice.Plant reproduction · 2018Sukawa Y, Okamoto TDOI: 10.1007/s00497-017-0318-x
- Recovery of Sea Star Egg Cell Surface Proteins Released at Fertilization.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021Wiseman E, Bates L, Carroll DJDOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0974-3_9
- The Florey lecture, 1988. From egg to embryo: the initiation of cell differentiation in Amphibia.ReviewProceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 1989