291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2685.426 - 2724.251 Venki Ramakrishnan

For example, when a female fetus, in the early embryonic stages, there are almost a million eggs or so. But of course, you know, you don't have, those million eggs are not, you don't have a million ovulation cycles. You know, in a human woman's life, maybe a few hundred eggs are, you know, secreted during menstruation, I mean, during ovulation. So what happens to all the others?