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Cross-sectional animation of the early development of a sea urchin embryo, where yellow = ectoderm, orange = endoderm, red = primary mesenchyme cells and skeleton, and orange "dots" = secondary mesenchyme cells.

invaginate

(genetic biology)

  • Grammar: verb
    verb forms:
    invaginates, invaginated, invaginating
  • Definition: to infold or become infolded so as to form a hollow space within a previously solid structure, as in the formation of a gastrula from a blastula
  • Example:
    1.

    2. Invagination forms the archenteron and continues until the archenteron makes contact with the opposite end of the blastula.
  • Related Word: invagination (noun)


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