blastula

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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.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Further cleavage results in a hollow ball of cells called a blastula.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

If we then imagine the yelk it contains to be dissolved and replaced by a clear liquid, we have the characteristic blastula of the higher mammals.

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