blastosphere
Americannoun
noun
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another name for blastula
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another name for blastocyst
Etymology
Origin of blastosphere
Example Sentences
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There is no open invagination of an archenteron in the fowl, as in the frog--, the gastrula, like the blastosphere, stage is also masked.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The earliest one-celled protozoa were probably succeeded by many- celled animals of the type of the blastosphere, and these by gastrula-like organisms.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
We naturally assume, from what we have learnt, that the next stages will be the formation of a hollow blastosphere, invagination, a gastrula forming mesoblast by hollow outgrowths from the archenteron, and so on.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The segmentation is complete; one side of the hollow blastosphere invaginates and forms a gastrula.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
Invagination, the infolding of a layer of cells, as, for instance, in the transformation of a blastosphere into a gastrula, xvii.
From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Oscar Hertwig
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