Light micrograph of a primary oocyte located in an ovarian secondary follicle. The oocyte is a very big cell, measuring more than 150 micrometres, sur

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Light micrograph of a primary oocyte located in an ovarian secondary follicle. The oocyte is a very big cell, measuring more than 150 micrometres, surrounded by the zona pellucida. The nucleus is in dictyotene of meiotic prophase I.

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Photo credit: © JOSE CALVO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: anatomy, cell, chromatin, dictyotene, diplotene, eosin, female, follicle, gametogenesis, granulosa, hematoxylin, histological, histology, meiosis, meiotic, micrograph, microscopic, microscopy, nuclear, nucleolus, nucleus, oocyte, ovarian, ovary, ovogenesis, pellucida, prophase, reproductive, system, tissue, zona