Oocyte

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Food Biotechnology

The egg mother cell; it undergoes two meiotic divisions (oogenesis ) to form the egg cell. The primary oocyte refers to the state before completion of the first meiotic division; the secondary oocyte after completion of the first meiotic division.

Science› Biotechnology and Genetics

Stem Cell

Developing egg; usually a large and immobile cell.

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