The Human Egg
This is simply an incredible image of an ovum, one of the two haploid cells that combine to start the process towards human life.
B0002101 Credit Yorgos Nikas, Wellcome Images
Human egg with coronal cells/purple/alone
Colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph of a
human egg. The egg is surrounded by a glycoprotein
coat called the zona pellucida which aids in
trapping and binding the sperm. Two residual
coronal cells from the ovarian follicle are
attached to the zona pellucida.
Collection: Wellcome ImagesCopyrighted work available under Creative Commons by-nc-nd 2.0
