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germ layer
noun
- one of the three primary embryonic cell layers.
germ layer
- Any of three cellular layers, the ectoderm, endoderm, or mesoderm, into which most animal embryos differentiate in the gastrula stage and from which the organs and tissues of the body develop through further differentiation.
Word History and Origins
Origin of germ layer1
Example Sentences
At this point gastrulation begins and the so-called germ layers form.
For instance, the work called into question whether sharing a germ layer would always ease direct reprogramming between cell types.
In gastrulation, the epiblast differentiates into the three germ layers of cells — the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm — that will form the fetus.
Symmetry breaking, germ layer specification and axial organisation in aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells.
It would be more revealing, he adds, to track later developmental events, such as the formation of the three germ layers that give rise to different organs, because these events are less governed by luck.
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