blastula
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The blastula, which in some species is a hollow ball of cells, undergoes a process called gastrulation, in which the three germ layers form.
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After the cleavage has produced over 100 cells, the embryo is called a blastula.
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After fertilization, the zygote undergoes cleavage to form the blastula.
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The blastula is often a hollow ball of cells.
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Although the mass of the food-yelk may be very large in the ova of the discoblastic vertebrates, nevertheless in every case a blastula is developed from the morula, as in the holoblastic ova.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 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
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
I picture the embryos themselves: round blastulas, with evenly divided cells.
From Slate ● May 23, 2012
