blastula
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After the cleavage has produced over 100 cells, the embryo is called a blastula.
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
Background: A prepared microscope slide of blastula cross-sections will show cells arrested in various stages of the cell cycle.
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The cells in the blastula then rearrange themselves spatially to form three layers of cells.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
The blastula, or hollow sphere of segmentation cells, usually ciliated, was reminiscent of the planæa, an ancestral free-swimming form whose nearest living relation is the spherical Magosphæra.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
