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blastosphere

[blas-tuh-sfeer] / ˈblæs təˌsfɪər /


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Invagination, the infolding of a layer of cells, as, for instance, in the transformation of a blastosphere into a gastrula, xvii.

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

The segmentation is complete; one side of the hollow blastosphere invaginates and forms a gastrula.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

This is the blastosphere, shown diagrammatically in Figure 4, and of which an internal view, rather truer to the facts of the case as regards shape, is given as Figure 5.

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

We naturally assume, from what we have learnt, that the next stages will be the formation of a hollow blastosphere, invagination, a gastrula forming mesoblast by hollow outgrowths from the archenteron, and so on.

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

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


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