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  2. Polar body - Wikipedia

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    A polar body is a small haploid cell that is formed at the same time as ... because the formation of the first polar body influences the chromosomal makeup of the second.

  3. Oogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Oogonium —(Oocytogenesis)—> Primary Oocyte —(Meiosis I)—> First Polar body (Discarded afterward) + Secondary oocyte —(Meiosis II)—> Second Polar Body (Discarded afterward) + Ovum Oocyte meiosis, important to all animal life cycles yet unlike all other instances of animal cell division, occurs completely without the aid of spindle ...

  4. Polar body biopsy - Wikipedia

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    Polar body biopsy is the sampling of a polar body of an oocyte.It was first applied clinically in humans in 1987 after extensive animal studies. [1] A polar body is a small haploid cell that is formed concomitantly as an egg cell during oogenesis, but which generally does not have the ability to be fertilized.

  5. Meiosis - Wikipedia

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    Each primary oocyte divides twice in meiosis, unequally in each case. The first division produces a daughter cell, and a much smaller polar body which may or may not undergo a second division. In meiosis II, division of the daughter cell produces a second polar body, and a single haploid cell, which enlarges to become an ovum. Therefore, in ...

  6. Pronucleus - Wikipedia

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    The formation of the female egg is asymmetrical, while the formation of the male sperm is symmetrical. Typically in a female mammal, meiosis starts with one diploid cell and becomes one haploid ovum and typically two polar bodies, however one may later divide to form a third polar body. [4]

  7. Immature ovum - Wikipedia

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    The secondary oocyte continues the second stage of meiosis (meiosis II), and the daughter cells are one ootid and one polar body. Secondary oocytes are the immature ovum shortly after ovulation, to fertilization , where it turns into an ootid.

  8. 46,XX/46,XY - Wikipedia

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    Variations of this mechanism include fertilization of an ovum and its first or second polar body by two sperm. [15] 46,XX/46,XY can also be explained by a mosaic-based mechanism. A single zygote is formed from the fertilization of a normal X ovum. The resulting XX/XY zygote divides to give two cell lines: 46,XX/46,XY.

  9. Germ cell - Wikipedia

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    The meiotic division I produces 2 cells differing in size: a small polar body and a large secondary oocyte. The secondary oocyte undergoes meiotic division II and that results in the formation of a second small polar body and a large mature egg, both being haploid cells. The polar bodies degenerate. [12]