What is true about cleavage in the fertilised egg in humans?

It starts while the egg is in Fallopian tube

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It starts when the egg reaches uterus

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It is meroblastic

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It is identical to the normal mitosis

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The correct option is A It starts while the egg is in Fallopian tube
Cleavage in the fertilised egg starts in the Fallopian tube. It is holoblastic. There is no growth phase, so it differs from mitosis.

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