Recent Examples on the WebThe first of these, the donor, provides developing eggs, known as oocytes.—Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024 Human oocytes lie dormant for decades waiting to be fertilized.—Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 5 June 2024 In young oocytes, they are situated throughout the cytoplasm.—Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2024 There are now 30 embryos from the northern white rhinos that can be used to produce babies, and all are oocytes from Fatu, Hildebrandt said.—Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024 Both gonads are functional and produce spermatozoa and oocyte respectively after puberty.—Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019 Ultimately one dominant follicle releases an oocyte, or immature egg cell.—Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024 Su and her colleagues were able to characterize the RNA into five distinct genetic profiles or time periods of embryonic development: the oocyte or egg, zygote or fertilized egg, cleavage, morula and blastocyst stages.—Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 17 Jan. 2024 When the primordia start maturing into oocytes or testes, head-formation genes (different from the Hox genes), which are also responsible for forming a head in other creatures, become active in the middle of the stock body.—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2023
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