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POLAR CELL

In animals every meiotic division of the oocyte leads to the formation of one big cell (the egg) and a little polar body as the another cell. Polar body formation is a consequence of the very eccentric position of the nucleus and the spindle. This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology
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