blastula
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Once you are confident about your identification, begin to record the stage of each cell you encounter as you scan left to right, and top to bottom across the blastula section.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
After the cleavage has produced over 100 cells, the embryo is called a blastula.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Further cleavage results in a hollow ball of cells called a blastula.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The blastula, which in some species is a hollow ball of cells, undergoes a process called gastrulation, during which the three germ layers form.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
As this quantity of food-yelk fills the centre of the ovum before cleavage begins, there is no difference in this respect between the morula and the blastula.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.