Talk:Ovum

message: New research (Nature, around March? 2004) doubts if all ova are already present at birth. In case of a mouse, they found that also bone marrow can provide predecessors of ova. When they destroyed all ova, and provided new bone marrow of a donor, the mice could recover the ovary and new ova appeared. Probably they moved through the blood. It is unclear if the same is possible for human beings. Also it is unclear of these ova can become embryo's. -- July 2005
Is it just me, or is the latin origin of the word ovum explained twice in the first paragraph? --IronChris 03:35, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is. Someone should do something about that. --Romarin 04:37, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --Romarin 04:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Added more specific details about how ova form (i.e. meiosis). Please help! 68.173.113.106 (talk) 23:53, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
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message: Would it not be smarter to make the introduction simpler?--Filll 10:36, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: I'm a little troubled that this article exists side by side with Egg.    Any thoughts on merging this article into that one?  arkuat (talk) 06:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge to Egg (biology) 

message: how do u do this homework  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.10.101.7 (talk) 09:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
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message: It's a cell, not a true egg, right? 64.184.253.134 (talk) 04:57, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is calling the ovum an "egg" a misnomer? 

message: What is the mass of the average human ovum?  We've got size but not weight in this article.  The mass is quoted (without reference) as 2 kg over at Orders of magnitude (mass).  tschwenn (talk) 14:57, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human ovum mass 

message: In humans, fertilization occurs before a haploid female gamete is formed. It's not entirely clear in this article whether ovum refers to a diploid female cell that is fertilized or a haploid cell produced after fertilization. Is there a definitive consensus for which it refers to? Do other animals have the same timing for these events? Also, the text I'm using (Larsen's Human Embryology, 4th ed.) refers to the haploid cell as a "definitive oocyte". I think there someone should clarify the distinction between these terms: (secondary, definitive) oocyte, ootid, ovum, zygote.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.104.40.18 (talk) 20:47, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ovum vs. Secondary oocyte 

message: In the article that describes the spermatozoon, it says about X & Y chromosomes. Why it doesn't say anything here? Don't ova have chromosomes, too? Այնշախոր (talk) 07:39, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not involved with editing this page any. I just saw your question and read the article. My only guess is that since the ova only has the X chromosome ( and, therefore, doesn't determine the gender of the offspring, the X or Y chromosome of the spermatozoon does), the other editors didn't feel it necessary to note this. But I would agree that having something indicating this or wikilinking to another page regarding it would indeed improve the article. JoannaSerah (talk) 04:55, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about chromosomes in ova 

message: I'd prefer to call this page "Egg cell" in order to cover all female gametes of any organism group in one article. Now the disambiguation page for "Egg cell" redirects those in search of information on plant egg cells to "Gametophyte", which is misleading. In my opinion, this article should start with a general description of the function and characteristics of all egg cells, irrespective of organism group. Additional information for specific organism groups could then be given in separate sections labeled by the organism group name. Cricetus (talk) 11:53, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Ovum vs. egg cell

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