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The one cell in your body big enough to see, and it's betting everything on one shot.
means The female reproductive cell — an egg cell — the largest single cell in the human body and the one that, if fertilized, becomes the starting point of a new organism.
from Straight from Latin 'ovum,' meaning simply 'egg.' It's the root behind 'oval' (egg-shaped), 'ovary' (the egg-holder), and 'oviparous' (egg-laying) — a small ancient word that hatched a whole family of biological terms.
- size record
- largest human cell, visible without a microscope
- supply fixed
- you had your max ovum count before you were born
- name origin
- latin for egg, obviously, but oddly formal
- fertilization window
- viable for roughly 24 hours after release