きょくたい
極体
1. polar body (cell structure within the ovum)
2. Polar bodyWhen certain diploid cells in animals undergo meiosis to produce egg cells, they sometimes divide unevenly. Most of the cytoplasm is segregated into one daughter cell, which becomes the egg or ovum. The other, smaller cells are called polar bodies. They frequently die (apoptose) and disappear, but in some cases they remain and can be important in the life cycle of the organism.
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