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embryogenesis

American  
[em-bree-oh-jen-uh-sis] / ˌɛm bri oʊˈdʒɛn ə sɪs /

noun

  1. the formation and development of the embryo as a subject of scientific study.


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Beyond the 500 genes covered in the Cell study, the researchers are now working to finish the entire set of 2,000 C. elegans genes that have been implicated in embryogenesis.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

The function of Golgi ribbons remains enigmatic, but the researchers suspect that it is involved in cellular differentiation during embryogenesis.

From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024

"Human brain development starts during embryogenesis and extends postnatally through infancy, childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood," says Panos Roussos, M.D.,

From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2023

The fates of embryonic cells in deuterostomes can be altered if they are experimentally moved to a different location in the embryo due to indeterminant cleavage in early embryogenesis.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The principal challenge to preformation was the idea that something had to happen during embryogenesis that led to the formation of entirely new parts in the embryo.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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