Carnegie stage 1

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Early zygote.jpg

Facts: Week 1, size 0.1-0.15 mm

Features: zygote, fertilized oocyte, pronuclei, polar bodies, zona pellucida

This image shows an early human zygote where the male and female pronuclei have not yet combined to form the single zygote nucleus.

Two of the egg's polar bodies (right) are shown at the edge of the egg cytoplasm.


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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, April 18) Embryology Carnegie stage 1. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Carnegie_stage_1

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