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What activates the mitotic onset in the egg cell and the central cell remains elusive.
When an egg cell reprograms the DNA of an adult cell during a cloning experiment, Dr. Jaenisch said, the process is probably incomplete -- raising the possibility that genes in the cloned embryo are not activated (or "expressed") at the right time, in the right amount, and properly suppressed when not needed.
"The information in the egg cell is vast," he says.
An egg cell is also called an ovum.
The egg cell would reprogram the skin cell nucleus back into its totipotent state.
They removed the nuclei from several human cells and placed each one in another cell, an egg cell.
The nucleus from the mother's egg cell is then inserted into the donor egg.
A sperm cell being injected into an egg cell.
A sperm cell being injected into an egg cell (Photo via).
Dolly was produced by fusing the donor and egg cells and activating development with an electrical pulse, while Ryuzo Yanagimachi and his team at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, injected nuclei into mouse eggs using a very fine needle.
This ciliary touching activates signals that are sent into the cells to get them ready to fuse together, much like sperm and egg cells do in animals.
