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holoblastic
[ hol-uh-blas-tik, hoh-luh- ]
adjective
- (of certain eggs) undergoing total cleavage, resulting in equal blastomeres.
holoblastic
/ ˌhɒləˈblæstɪk /
adjective
- embryol of or showing cleavage of the entire zygote into blastomeres, as in eggs with little yolk Compare meroblastic
Derived Forms
- ˌholoˈblastically, adverb
Other Words From
- holo·blasti·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of holoblastic1
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Example Sentences
Holoblastic, hol-o-blas′tik, adj. undergoing segmentation throughout the entire mass, as the ova of mammals.
Broadly speaking, they fall first into two groups: the older cyclostoma, the earliest fishes, most of the amphibia, and the viviparous mammals, have holoblastic ova—that is to say, ova with total, unequal segmentation; while the younger cyclostoma, most of the fishes, the cephalopods, reptiles, birds, and monotremes, have meroblastic ova, or ova with partial discoid segmentation.
Although the mass of the food-yelk may be very large in the ova of the discoblastic vertebrates, nevertheless in every case a blastula is developed from the morula, as in the holoblastic ova.
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