An ovum has all the nutrients stored that required for embryonic development until implantation has occurred. Why? An ovum has all the nutrients stored that required for embryonic development until implantation has occurred. Why? Why? Solution Ovum also called as Egg cell. It is a female reproductive cell or gamete in Oogamous animals. Such kind of animals in their eggs have ooplasm or other wise Yolk of the ovum,a cell substance . The ooplasm consists of the cytoplasm of the ordinary animal cell with its spongioplasm and hyaloplasm ,often calle the formative yolk and the nutritive york or deutoplasm made of round granules of fatty and albuminoid substances imbedded in the cytoplasm. Mammalian ova contains only a tiny amount of the nutritive yolk, to nourish the early stages of its development..