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By age 30, most women have only about 12% of the egg cells they were born with.—Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 30 June 2025 But the mouse example obviously took a big assist via the manipulation of egg cells in culture before being implanted in a mouse.—ArsTechnica, 23 June 2025 The life and death of a seed Seeds are essentially plant embryos, arising when pollen lands on a flower and fertilizes an egg cell; the embryos are often encased by energy-supplying tissues, a shell and sometimes fleshy fruit.—Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025 Once that egg cell had developed into an embryo, it was implanted into a surrogate dog.—Emily Mullin, Wired News, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for egg cell
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