egg cell
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- noun
- /ɛɡ sɛl/
- Specialized
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- In the study, flowers 0.5-1 day before flowering are mainly used for egg cell isolation.
- sperm penetrates an egg cell
Then you induce those egg precursor cells into eggs, egg cells.
- Then you induce those egg precursor cells into eggs, egg cells.
- And in the egg cell we might have half a million copies of mitochondrial DNA.
- But that's not the same as specific behaviors modifying the genes of those cells, the sperm and the egg cells in a way that improves the offspring.
Examples
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The ovaries of a newborn girl contain up to 400,000 egg cells.
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In our study, isolated egg cells were washed three times for use in cDNA synthesis to remove coexisting materials derived from maternal tissues.
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The huge egg cell, however, contains tens of thousands of them.
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If you had one egg cell and one sperm cell, then the DNA is already determined.
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The transfer completed, the egg cell will then ideally accept the donor nucleus as its own.
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And in the egg cell we might have half a million copies of mitochondrial DNA.
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Chemical information can help sperm find the egg cell during fertilization.
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The technique, called nuclear transfer, involves removing the nucleus, the part containing the cell's genetic material, of a donor egg cell from a closely related species and replacing it with a nucleus containing clone DNA.
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When a sperm and an egg cell merge, a new life begins.
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The scientists wanted to understand how mistakes can cause disease in egg cells.
Synonyms
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A female egg cell that can become a baby after a sperm joins it
Surface Forms
Morphology
egg + cell
The compound 'egg cell' is a straightforward composition of 'egg' (the reproductive/gamete sense) and 'cell' (microscopic living unit), so its meaning as the female reproductive cell is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and uses standard noun+noun naming, so a B1 learner who knows the two words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Egg cell gets its name from the picture of a bird's egg and a tiny cell: people imagined the female reproductive cell as a small egg holding life. So egg cell means the female cell that, after a sperm joins it, can 'become' a new animal.