blastula

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Cells in the growing tip of the root rapidly undergo mitosis, just as the whitefish blastula described in Figure 10.10.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Here the cells in the blastula arrange themselves in two layers: the inner cell mass, and an outer layer called the trophoblast.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

After further cell division and rearrangement of existing cells, a 6–32-celled hollow structure called a blastula is formed.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Next, the blastula undergoes further cell division and cellular rearrangement during a process called gastrulation.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Thus the gastrulation of the placentals, which diverges most from that of the amphioxus, the primitive form, is reduced to the original type, the invagination of a modified blastula.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August