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blastula

[blas-chuh-luh] / ˈblæs tʃə lə /


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Background: A prepared microscope slide of blastula cross-sections will show cells arrested in various stages of the cell cycle.

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Body symmetry is determined at the blastula stage.

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After fertilization, the zygote undergoes cleavage to form the blastula.

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Gastrulation is the process in which the cells in the blastula rearrange themselves and form three layers of cells.

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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




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