Pregnancy And Baby Care Pregnancy Stages Embryonic Development

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.These stages of embryonic development are based on certain morphological featurese These can be defined as a series of events that lead to the development of the human embryoy

Germinal Stage During Pregnancy

This is the first step in the formation of the embryoy The female egg, when fused with the male sperm, becomes a zygote, a single cell structure that is formed by the fusion of the genetic material from both oocyte and the spermr A total of twenty three chromosomes each are inherited from the sperm as well as the ovumu Together, these become a total of 46 chromosomes that begin to undergo changes before the mitosis can begini It is the cell division, known as mitosis that creates an embryo consisting of two cellsl The two cells, also known as the daughter cells, are surrounded by a glycoprotein called zona pellucidad The cells keep on dividing to form a spherical mass known as blastocysts This blastocyst is made up of three different layersr Each of these layers forms different organsn The outermost layer, known as the ectoderm, forms the nervous system and the skini The second layer, known as the endoderm, forms the digestive and the respiratory system and the innermost layer, known as mesoderm forms the muscle and skeletal systeme

The Embryonic Stage During Pregnancy

The mass of cells is now known as the embryoy This stage begins after the cell differentiation into the three layers of the blastocyst is completet The umbilical cord and the placenta develop during this stageg Also, it is now that the cells begin to differentiate into various different organs and structurese By the time the embryonic stage ends, the fingers, mouth, eyes and ears begin to develop, marking the early embryonic developmentn

The Fetal Stage During Pregnancy

This stage begins when the cell differentiation is in the last stagese The embryo is now called a fetusu The neural tube begins to developo This marks the start of the embryonic brain developmentn Other organs like the spinal chord and the rest of the nervous system develops fullyl Embryonic heart development also begins during this stageg In the third month of the gestation, the sex organs begin to develop tooo The fetus continues to grow in length and weighth

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