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So now those 23 pairs are no longer attached to one another at the middle like they were before, like two beads of strings-- or I should say, 23 short strands of beads that were at once connected to one another now are pulled apart so that you have 23 chromosomes on each side, but they're pulled apart from one another. So that diploid cell is now starting to become a cell in which half of the chromosomes, half of those 23 pairs, are physically pulled away from the others.
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And then one of those actually gets ejected from the egg, and the name of that thing that gets ejected-- it's sort of like a little Hubble pod is how I imagine it, you know, from Star Wars or from any kind of Space Odyssey movie where some thing is ready to happen. A little Hubble pod shoots out of the ship. Well, that 23 pairs is now ejected from the egg. It's called the polar body. And that's going to degenerate. It's going to go away. And in doing so, take the egg cell, which was once diploid-- it had 23 pairs of chromosomes-- and making it haploid.