blastosphere
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The conditions for the origin of the blastosphere come into existence only by the process of segmentation, and it is only by its capacity to divide that the egg contains the conditions for blastosphere formation.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar
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 Norton, William Harmon
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Hertwig, Oscar
If we compare this with the typical blastosphere of the lower type, we see that it is, as it were, flattened out on the yolk.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
