polar bodies

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Food Biotechnology

In female animals, the products of a meiotic division that do not develop into a functional ovum. The first polar body comprises one of the two products of the first meiotic divisions, which may fail to divide at the second division. The second polar body comprises one of the products of the second division.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture