<P> A polar body is a small haploid cell that is formed concomitantly as an egg cell during oogenesis , but which generally does not have the ability to be fertilized . When certain diploid cells in animals undergo cytokinesis after meiosis to produce egg cells , they sometimes divide unevenly . Most of the cytoplasm is segregated into one daughter cell , which becomes the egg or ovum , while the smaller polar bodies only get a small amount of cytoplasm . They frequently die ( apoptosis ) and disappear , but in some cases they remain and can be important in the life cycle of the organism . </P>
<P> A polar body is a small haploid cell that is formed concomitantly as an egg cell during oogenesis , but which generally does not have the ability to be fertilized . When certain diploid cells in animals undergo cytokinesis after meiosis to produce egg cells , they sometimes divide unevenly . Most of the cytoplasm is segregated into one daughter cell , which becomes the egg or ovum , while the smaller polar bodies only get a small amount of cytoplasm . They frequently die ( apoptosis ) and disappear , but in some cases they remain and can be important in the life cycle of the organism . </P>
polar bodies are produced during the formation of
polar bodies are produced during the formation of
an egg cell during oogenesis
an egg cell during oogenesis