03-22-2004, 06:53 PM
QuickStop Wrote:ive never heard that a woman was born with all her eggs at birth. i thought the cells did that wacky special mitosis thing (called something else) and made the eggs one by one every month or so.Mitosis - Cell Division in Somatic Cells.
Meiosis - Cell Division in Reproductive Cells.
Women usually are born with all the sex cells they will use between puberty and menopause. Meiosis only occurs after fertilization when the fetus is gestating.
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