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When a human female is born the development of her oocytes is arrested in:
A) Prophase of mitosis
B) Prophase I of meiosis
C) Prophase II of meiosis
D) Interphase
answer is B, but when I looked over the topic the book mentions: "After replication occurs in the S phase of interphase, the cell is called a primary spermatocyte or primary oocyte. In the human female, replication takes place before birth, and the life cycle of all germ cells are arrested at the primary oocyte stage until puberty"
Wouldn't this mean that the development of her oocytes is stuck in interphase?
A) Prophase of mitosis
B) Prophase I of meiosis
C) Prophase II of meiosis
D) Interphase
answer is B, but when I looked over the topic the book mentions: "After replication occurs in the S phase of interphase, the cell is called a primary spermatocyte or primary oocyte. In the human female, replication takes place before birth, and the life cycle of all germ cells are arrested at the primary oocyte stage until puberty"
Wouldn't this mean that the development of her oocytes is stuck in interphase?
