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Read the given statements and select the correct option.

Statement 1 : In a Graafian follicle, the primary oocyte and the follicle cells may be regarded sibling cells.  

Statement 2: Both arise from same parent cell, the oogonium, by mitotic divisions.

Option: 1

Both statements 1 and 2 are correct.


Option: 2

Satement 1 is correct but statement 2 in incorrect


Option: 3

Satement 1 is incorrect but statement 2 in correct.


Option: 4

Both statements 1 and 2 are incorrect.


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Secondary follicles -

A large number of primary follicles degenerate during the phase from birth to puberty. Therefore, at puberty only 60,000?80,000 primary follicles are left in each ovary. The primary follicles get surrounded by more layers of granulosa cells and a new theca and are called secondary follicles.

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