I stand corrected....open mouth insert foot. =)
"Although mature eggs and sperm normally have only half the genetic material of a typical body cell, to prevent an embryo from having a double set of genes following conception, eggs halve their genetic complement relatively late in their maturation cycle. If activated before that stage, they still retain a full set of genes."
If I had read a little further down I would have come across this. Now what was that my momma always said about leaping before I look.