Eggs Flashcards
Egg’s first line of defense
Shell
The empty space between the white and the shell
Air cell
Accounts for most of an egg’s liquid weight
Albumen/Egg white
a dense, matted, fibrous capsule terminates on each end in the chalazae
Inner thick/chalaziferous white
A fluid layer located next to the yolk
Inner thin white
A gel that forms the center of the albumen
Outer thick white
A narrow fluid layer next to the shell membrane
Outer thin white
The ropey strands of egg white at both sides of the egg
Chalaza
Entrance of the latebra, when egg is fertilized sperm enters here
Germinal Disc/Blastodisk
Membrane that sticks to the shell
Outer shell membrane
Membrane that sticks to the albumen
Inner shell membrane
Covering that protects the yolk from breaking
Vitelline membrane
Makes about 33% of the liquid weight of the egg
Yolk