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Donor egg: An option for women who cannot produce eggs or for whom quality is an issue. Another woman donates her eggs to be used for an in-vitro fertilization procedure. A woman using a donor egg becomes the birth mother to the offspring but doesn't share the child's genetic makeup. However, if the male partner's sperm was used in the fertilization process, the child shares his genetic background.