egg cell

noun
1.
egg (def 5).
Origin
1875-80
Examples from the web for egg cell
  • The process, also called nuclear transfer, begins when a nucleus is removed from an egg cell.
  • The glowing dogs show it is possible to successfully insert fluorescent genes into an egg cell.
  • Moreover, they were able to perform the repair before an egg cell was even fertilized.
  • In ordinary cloning, the nucleus of an egg cell is replaced with the nucleus from a body cell of the animal to be cloned.