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| Week 3 the embryo becomes... |
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| What is formed at the start of gastrulation? |
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| What condition is the right/left side of body reversed |
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| How is partial situs inversus more serious |
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| Abnormal connections made with blood vessels delivering oxygenated blood to the wrong parts |
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| What is beginning to form when epiblast cells move towards the primitive streak |
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| Cells detach from the epiblast and do what? |
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| Insert into the hypoblast to replace hypoblast cells |
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| When is the definitive endoderm formation completed |
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| When the hypoblast cells have been completely replaced |
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| What is formed when epiblast cells move down through the primitive streak to form a middle layer |
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| What happens to the mesoderm once formed |
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| It becomes highly organised into blobs |
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| What are the different mesoderm blobs |
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Notochord Paraxial mesoderm Intermediate mesoderm Lateral mesoderm |
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| How is the ectoderm formed |
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| The remaining epiblast becomes the ectoderm and completes gastrulation |
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| What does the ectoderm eventually form |
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| The epidermis and nervous system |
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| What does the mesoderm eventually form? |
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| Skeleton and skeletal muscles |
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| What does the endoderm eventually form? |
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| The epithelial layer of the gastrointestinal tract |
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| What can abnormal gastrulation lead to? |
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| Sirenomelia (mermain syndrome) |
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| What is the most common tumour in newborns? |
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| What gives rise to sacrococcygeal teratoma? |
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| Remnants of the primitive streak |
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| What does the notochord initiate? |
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| What do signals from the notochord cause? |
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| The overlying ectoderm to thicken and form the neural plate |
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| When the notochord causes the overlying ectorderm to thicken and form the neural plate |
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| What initiates and organises the formation of vertebrae |
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| What are vertebrae formed from |
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| What do somites differentiate into |
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Sclerotome Myotome Dermatome |
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| Which layer do somites form from? |
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| Sclerotome cells surround the notochord to form what? |
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| What do sclerotome cells from when they surround the neural tube |
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| What does abnormal induction of sclerotomes result in |
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Spina bifida Meningocele Myelomeningocele |
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