Females Have All the Eggs They Will Ever Have by the Age

Question

Females have all the eggs they will ever have by the age of ________.
A)4 months in utero
B)8 months
C)Puberty
D)13 years

Accepted Answer

Females develop all their eggs before they are born, and by the time of birth, a baby girl has around 1-2 million eggs. At puberty, only about 400,000 of these eggs remain, and only a few hundred will actually be released during a woman's reproductive years. Therefore, females have all the eggs they will ever have by the age of 4 months in utero.