CELL DIVISION

Cell Division

Cell Division

In the process of cell division that is unique to egg cells, half the chromosomes are eliminated from the egg before it is fertilised. The first step in creating the egg is a division of its progenitor cell, the egg. Unlike other cells in the body, an egg is not equally producing two identical daughter cells. Instead, he is a reduction division, which halves its genetic material to create a single egg cell with 23 instead of the normal human chromosome 46.

It is important that the egg has half the normal set of chromosomes, as in the ...