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blastosphere

[blas-tuh-sfeer] / ˈblæs təˌsfɪər /


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Both the blastosphere and gastrula often swim freely by flagella.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler

The blastosphere of the frog is like what the blastosphere of amphioxus would be, if the future hypoblast cells were enormously larger through their protoplasm being diluted with yolk.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The earliest one-celled protozoa were probably succeeded by many- celled animals of the type of the blastosphere, and these by gastrula-like organisms.

From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton

Thus, an oval and an elongate egg produce respectively an oval and an elongate blastosphere.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig

The blastosphere, growing beyond its limits, folds into a cup-shaped organism.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig


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