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blastula

[blas-chuh-luh] / ˈblæs tʃə lə /


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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

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

Body symmetry is determined at the blastula stage.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The blastula is often a hollow ball of cells.

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The blastula, or hollow sphere of segmentation cells, usually ciliated, was reminiscent of the planæa, an ancestral free-swimming form whose nearest living relation is the spherical Magosphæra.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell




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