blastula
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Body symmetry is determined at the blastula stage.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Gastrulation is the process in which the cells in the blastula rearrange themselves and form three layers of cells.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
Next, the blastula undergoes further cell division and cellular rearrangement during a process called gastrulation.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
We call this layer the blastoderm, and the sphere itself the blastula, or embryonic vesicle.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
For Ptychodera, extensive EST data from egg, blastulae, gastrulae, larvae, juveniles, adult proboscis, stomochord, and gills defining 34,159 cDNA clones53, and 879,000 Roche/454 RNAseq reads from a mixed library of developmental stages54 were used.
From Nature ● Nov. 17, 2015
I picture the embryos themselves: round blastulas, with evenly divided cells.
From Slate ● May 23, 2012
Near the end of my visit, our conversation turned from the theoretical consideration of morulas and blastulas to the specific realities of my own condition and treatment.
From Slate ● May 23, 2012
