germ layer

collocation in English

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germ
noun
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/dʒɜːm/us
/dʒɝːm/
a very small organism that ...
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layer
noun[C]
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/ˈleɪ.ər/us
/ˈleɪ.ɚ/
a level of material, such as a type of rock or gas, that is different from the material above or below it, or a thin sheet of ...
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Only with the germ layers, it was assumed, is the egg sufficiently fixed as to its later fate, and only at that stage is it subject to true adaptation.
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In addition, by the early 1880s many embryologists had come to assume that the first important stage of development occurs when the germ layers have been established.
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Muse cells are able to generate cells representative of all three germ layers from a single cell both spontaneously and under cytokine induction.
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All the more complex animals (from flat worms to humans) are triploblastic with three germ layers (a mesoderm as well as ectoderm and endoderm).
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In triploblastic organisms, the three germ layers are called endoderm, ectoderm, and mesoderm.
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For instance, skeletal muscle, kidney and spleen are formed of thegermlayermesoderm, whereas the liver originates from the endoderm.
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Only as thisgermlayerdoctrine came to be widely called into question in the course of the 1880s did considerable attention focus on those earliest stages.
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The once superficial cells of the animal pole are destined to become the cells of the middlegermlayercalled the mesoderm.
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An ancient role for nuclear beta-catenin in the evolution of axial polarity andgermlayersegregation.
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Simpler animals, such as sea sponges, have onegermlayerand lack true tissue organisation.
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The cellular tissues that ultimately become teeth originate from the embryonicgermlayer, the ectoderm.
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They found trandifferentiation withingermlayerand between germ layers.
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Notable events during differentiation include the formation of the germ layers, extraembryonic membrane and organs.
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During the early stages of development, the primitive streak is the structure that will establish bilateral symmetry, determine the site of gastrulation and initiategermlayerformation.
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Like the other calcareous layers of the shell, the nacre is created by the epithelial cells (formed by thegermlayerectoderm) of the mantle tissue.
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She worked extensively on the developmental genetics of axial patterning,germlayerspecification, and other phenomena of gastrulation in mammals, including demonstrating that the node is the organizer in mammals.
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Whereas earlier development merely involves growing bigger, germ layers hold the key to later development and differentiation.
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The appearance of the germ layers symbolises the initiation of differentiation.
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It is in all three germ layers and neural crest cells.
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In these three phyla of organisms, the mesoderm (the middlegermlayer) forms as a solid mass of migrated cells from the single layer of the gastrula.
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There are only two main germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm, with only scattered cells between them.
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The body is triploblastic, i.e. all three germ layers are well-developed, and tissues form distinct organs.
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Cells of similar types migrated to their correct location and reaggregated to form germ layers in their developmentally correct positions.
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