Appendicular System Development Flashcards
The first week of gestation includes:
- Fertilization of the egg by sperm
- Cleavage (series of mitotic division)
- Implantation (zygote implants into uterine wall)
- Formation of the blastocyst
The second week of gestation includes:
Reorganization of the blastocyst into a bilaminar embryonic germ disk
What is the first step in the third week of gestation?
Primitive streak formation
What marks the beginning of gastrulation?
Primitive streak formation
Describe the second step of the third week of gestation.
What is formed at this time?
Epiblast cells proliferate into hypoblast, displacing hypoblastic cells.
Newly arrived epiblast cells form the endoderm.
Describe the third step of the third week of gestation.
What is formed at this time?
Epiblast cells proliferate into the space between the epiblast and endoderm.
These cells form the mesoderm.
When does gastrulation occur?
Week 3
Around day 15, ending by day 18
gastrulation
What do the remaining epiblast form?
Ectoderm
week 2 of gestation
The bilaminar embryonic germ disk into what two sections of cells?
Epiblast and hypoblast
week 3 of gestation
What are the four steps of gastrulation?
- Primitive streak formation
- Endoderm formation
- Mesoderm formation
- Ectoderm formation
How are the notochordal process and prechordal plate formed?
Newly formed mesoderm cells migrate through the primitive streak and knot, condensing along the midline
When newly formed mesoderm cells migrate through the primitive streak and knot, and condense along the midline, what is formed?
The notochordal process and prechordal plate
What does the notochordal process become?
The notochord
When the notochordal process becomes the notochord, overlying ectoderm is stimulated into…
neural tissue
When is the development of somites initiated?
When the notochordal process becomes the notochord
When are the fates of certain cells in the nervous system specified?
When the notochordal process becomes the notochord
When the notochord and prechordal plate approximate each other, inductive changes occur that trigger the formation of the…
neural plate in the ectoderm
The neural plate in the ectoderm overlies the…
notochord