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blastula

[blas-chuh-luh] / ˈblæs tʃə lə /


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After the cleavage has produced over 100 cells, the embryo is called a blastula.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The cells in the blastula rearrange themselves spatially to form three layers of cells.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

After fertilization, the zygote develops into a blastula, which develops into a planula larva.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

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

The germinal layers form from the first closed tubes, the one-layered blastula being converted into the two-layered gastrula by invagination.

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




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