What is Oocyte?
via it.stlawu.edu
Oocyte: A female germ cell in the process of development. The oocyte is produced in the ovary by an ancestral cell called an oogonium and gives rise to the ovum (the egg) which can be fertilized.
Quoted from www.medterms.com
By the way, when I search for the “Oocyte” to get what is it, I found this:
A hammerhead shark reproduced without mating in 2001, marking the first time that asexual reproduction has been observed among sharks, according to a new report.
Instead of mating with a male, the paper says in this case “the female sharkâs own genetic material combined during the process of cell division that produces an egg. A cell called the secondary oocyte, which contains half the female chromosomes and normally becomes the egg, fused with another cell called the secondary polar body, which contains the identical genetic material.”
Quoted from blogs.usatoday.com
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