Haploid female reproductive cell or gamete

concept

Cabbage white butterfly egg,v.close-up, SEM.

Meiosis in an oocyte

Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM

Scheme for in vitro fertilisation

Meiotic spindle and chromosomes

Cabbage white butterfly egg, very close-up

Location of cyclin in maturing human egg

Sperm swimming towards an egg

Cabbage white butterfly egg, close-up, SEM.

Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM.

A spermatozoon chasing an egg, as an advertisement for condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy. Colour lithograph, 1994.

L'oeuf humain : implantation et gestation, trophoderme et placenta / par A.-C.-F. Eternod.

Note sur une inclusion rencontrée dans un oeuf de poule / par C. van Bambeke.

The red market : on the trail of the world's organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child traffickers / Scott Carney.

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Ovum

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L'oeuf humain : implantation et gestation, trophoderme et placenta / par A.-C.-F. Eternod.

Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM.

Note sur une inclusion rencontrée dans un oeuf de poule / par C. van Bambeke.

The red market : on the trail of the world's organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child traffickers / Scott Carney.

Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM.

Ovum

Images from the collections

Images referencing Ovum

Works from the collections

L'oeuf humain : implantation et gestation, trophoderme et placenta / par A.-C.-F. Eternod.

Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM.

Note sur une inclusion rencontrée dans un oeuf de poule / par C. van Bambeke.

The red market : on the trail of the world's organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child traffickers / Scott Carney.

Cabbage white butterfly eggs, SEM.

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