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Although each egg cell produced by a woman carries a single X chromosome, the sperm cells produced by a man carry either an X or a Y. This means, in very simple terms, that the sperm cell determines a baby's sex.
Kenneth R. Miller

Meaning of "egg cell" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF EGG CELL

egg cell  [eɡ sel] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EGG CELL

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conjunction
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Egg cell is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EGG CELL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

egg cell

Egg cell

The egg cell is the female haploid reproductive cell in oogamous organisms. The egg cell is typically not capable of active movement, and it is much larger than the motile sperm cells. When egg and sperm fuse, a diploid cell is formed, which gradually grows into a new organism.

Definition of egg cell in the English dictionary

The definition of egg cell in the dictionary is any female gamete; ovum.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EGG CELL


hard-sell
ˈhɑːdˌsel
lioncel
ˈlaɪənˌsel
multicell
ˈmʌltɪˌsel
nainsell
neɪnˈsel
penoncel
ˈpenənˌsel
pucelle
pjʊˈsel
subcell
ˈsʌbˌsel
supersell
ˌsuːpərˈsel
unsell
ʌnˈsel

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EGG CELL

egg
egg and anchor
egg and dart
egg and tongue
egg cup
egg custard
egg flip
egg roll
egg sandwich
egg slice
egg spoon
egg timer
egg tooth
egg white
egg yolk
egg-and-spoon race
egg-binding
egg-bound
egg-shaped
egg-slicer

WORDS THAT END LIKE EGG CELL

blood cell
brain cell
cell
death cell
dry cell
electrolytic cell
fuel cell
germ cell
jail cell
mast cell
padded cell
primary cell
red blood cell
secondary cell
solar cell
somatic cell
standard cell
stem cell
unit cell
wet cell
white blood cell

Synonyms and antonyms of egg cell in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «egg cell» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EGG CELL

Find out the translation of egg cell to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of egg cell from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «egg cell» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

卵细胞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

óvulo
570 millions of speakers

English

egg cell
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अंडा सेल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

خلية البويضة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

яйцеклетка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

óvulo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডিম্বাণু
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ovule
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sel telur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Eizelle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

卵細胞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

난자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Endhog sel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tế bào trứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முட்டை செல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंडी सेल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yumurta hücresi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cellula uovo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

komórka jajowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

яйцеклітина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

celulă ou
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ωάριο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eiersel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

äggcell
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

eggcellen
5 millions of speakers

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The term «egg cell» is regularly used and occupies the 64.533 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about egg cell

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QUOTES WITH «EGG CELL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word egg cell.
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Kenneth R. Miller
Although each egg cell produced by a woman carries a single X chromosome, the sperm cells produced by a man carry either an X or a Y. This means, in very simple terms, that the sperm cell determines a baby's sex.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EGG CELL»

Discover the use of egg cell in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to egg cell and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Biotechnology for Beginners
This would explain why a clone ages prematurely. Finally, the interaction between denucleated cell and injected nucleus may be faulty. The egg cell's cytoplasm produces active substances that control the functioning of the nucleus. Faults in ...
Reinhard Renneberg, Arnold L. Demain, 2008
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Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
To Start With: The Dynamics of the Human Egg Cell The human egg cell (see Figure 9.1) exhibits a number of features and properties that are basic to nearly every cell in the human body. The uniqueness of the egg cell, however, is the fact  ...
Michael J. Shea, 2007
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Human Development
Such knowledge will not only serve as useful background information, but is also necessary for the proper understanding of both normal and abnormal psychological development. 3.2. 1. 1 Conception An egg cell (magnified about 400 times) ...
D.A. Louw, 1998
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Color Atlas of Human Anatomy
after penetrating the zona pellucida, enters the narrow perivitelline space (C4) between the zona pellucida and the surface of the egg cell. The acrosome reaction consists of the fusion of the inner acrosomal membrane with the plasma  ...
Helga Fritsch, Wolfgang Kuehnel, 2011
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Biology: A Functional Approach. Students' Manual
The egg- containing part of the carpel is the ovule: the ovary contains one or more ovules, each of which contains an embryo sac with an egg cell inside. In this investigation we shall look at the microscopic structure of the anther and ovule.
M. B. V. Roberts, T. J. King, 1987
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The Human Body
To make a baby, one sperm cell and one egg cell have to join together. They merge together to make one cell, which is called a fertilised egg (or a zygote). This cell then divides and multiplies itself millions of times to become a human baby.
Anna Claybourne, 2006
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Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development
The egg cell is rich in cytoplasm and often contains a large amount of yolk that provides nutrients to the embryo up to the moment of hatching. The sperm cell is tiny by comparison, and contains only the nucleus and the centrosome, ...
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, 2006
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Biology Coloring Workbook
In diagram 1 we have an egg cell (E), which contains one member of each of two chromatid pairs from the female. You can see the first egg cell chromatid (F) and the second egg cell chromatid (G). When the normal egg cell unites with a ...
I. Edward Alcamo, 1998
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Popular Science
This is true of the entire range, of animals from the lowest to the highest, including ourselves. Once in the water, the hydra sperm swims around for a while until it meets an egg cell upon the body of the very hydra that freed it or of another one.
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Cell and Molecular Biology
It also helps in the fusion of one sperm with the egg cell and the other with the central cell. The normal intact FGU is characterized by the presence of (i) narrow micropylar entries (checking entry of supernumerary pollen tubes which may cause ...
Gupta, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EGG CELL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term egg cell is used in the context of the following news items.
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Dolly sheep, have you any genes?
They then took an unfertilized egg cell of a blackface ewe (notice, no father as they are working with two female sheep) and removed its ... «messenger-inquirer, Jul 15»
2
Baystate expands fertility preservation options for area women
Prior to freezing, the egg cell's water content is replaced with another fluid to avoid the formation of ice crystals. It is preserved using either a ... «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
3
Should young men look to freeze their sperm?
"Because women are born with their eggs, ovulation of an egg at age 40 means the egg cell is 40. Whereas a 40-year-old man produces sperm ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
4
Pigs, sheep and cows given double myostatin inhibition gene editing
... Kim's collaborator Xi-jun Yin, an animal-cloning researcher at Yanbian University in Yanji, China, transferred it to an egg cell, and created 32 ... «Next Big Future, Jul 15»
5
Why human egg cells don't age well
One part continues as the egg cell and the other part degrades. In the second stage of meiosis, the single pairs of chromosomes—two sister ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
6
Gene politics
Parallels were drawn with another ongoing debate over 'three-parent embryos', in which an egg cell's diseased mitochondria are replaced with ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
7
Chimera alert? Myths and facts of human-non-human animal …
... a cell hybrid using genetic information from a human cell inside a de-nucleated (nucleus removed) egg cell from an animal, such as a rabbit. «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
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Scientists breed MUSCLY PIGS that could one day lead to super …
This modified cell was added to an egg cell and used to create 32 cloned piglets (stock image pictured). The study is the latest in a long line of ... «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
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Cloning: Copying Animals and Bringing Back Lost Species
The hybrid egg cell was then stimulated with a shock and began to divide; after this process it was implanted into a surrogate mother, who then ... «Sputnik International, Jun 15»
10
The Science Of Human Cloning: How Far We've Come And How Far …
... also known as reproductive cloning, scientists remove a mature somatic cell (any type of cell, except a sperm or egg cell) from the animal the ... «Medical Daily, Jun 15»

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