An egg need not be fertilized to become mature. An egg must be fertilized to develop into an embryo.
During oogenesis, the cytoplasm is divided UNEVENLY so that only one mature egg is produced along with three polar bodies.
polar bodies
The oogenesis of a rat is the period of time in a female when the ovum is immature. The process begins with oocytogenesis and ends with a mature ovum.
the human egg cell goes through that process!
If an egg is fertilized by a sperm containing a Y chromosome, the egg would mature into a fetus which would then mature into a male offspring
fertilized egg
in vitro fertilization
A mature follicle will be released during ovulation and travel to the uterus. If is it fertilized, then it will implant in the uterine wall. If it does not then it will be passed out of the body during the menstrual cycle.
a sex cell that is not ready to be fertilized or developed.
A seed eventually develops from a fertilized plant egg. A seed is the mature fertilized egg cell of a plant. It is the embryo developing from the fertilized plant egg. The seed, however, develops from the ovule during embryo formation in it.
Duringoogenesis, the production of egg cells take place. In oogenesis, a diploid reproductive cell divides meiotically to produce one mature egg cell (also called ovum). During cytokinesis and cytokinesis two of oogenesis, the cytoplasm of the original cell is divided unequally between new cells. As a result only one mature egg cell is produced by meiosis, the other three eggs are called polar bodies and will eventually degenerate
Ovulation is when a mature egg is released into a fallopian tube where it can be fertilized.