Embryology

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  • studies the growth and development of an embryo
    embryology
  • what stages of life does embryology encompass?
    fertilization to birth
  • what stages of life does development biology encompass?
    birth to death
  • one cell can manifest specific genes while others dont
    differentiation
  • cells can arrange themselves to their target locations
    morphogenesis
  • cell division is tightly regulated resulting to
    growth
  • sex cells fuse and form zygote
    reproduction
  • what organ can regenerate?
    liver
  • type of cells that can regenerate?
    Stem cells
  • when can a person pass off mutated genes to offsprings?
    mutation in sex cells
  • development create new taxa which results to?
    evolution
  • affects the development of an organism
    environmental integration
  • how many chromosomes in 1n?
    23
  • ex ovo omnia
    William Harvey
  • meaning of ex ovo omnia
    from the egg, all
  • observed the developing chick embryo in its microscopic details
    Marcelo Malphigi
  • forms the adult body of those who will be born
    homunculus
  • pre-existing condition in which all people who will be born have already been formed
    preformation
  • coined the term animalcules
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
  • term for future human in the egg
    ovists
  • each person is resulted from the contributions of parents
    epigenesis
  • the adult was developed from an amorphous mass and assembled
    epigenesis
  • to whose idea was the epigenesis
    pythagoras and aristotle
  • who discovered the notochord
    Karl Ernst von Baer
  • who discovered the development of the ovum
    Karl Ernst von Baer
  • The embryos from different species looks similar
  • Charles Darwin used embryological evidence to classify organisms