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Biology II: Mouse, Zebrafish, and Chick
Chicken Embryos in Developmental Biology
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Chicken embryos are important model organisms in developmental biology. Most of their development happens inside an egg outside the mother. That makes early stages easy to access, observe, and manipulate through a small opening in the eggshell.
Chickens are also practical for research. Billions a...
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The developing chicken, or chick, formally known as Gallus gallus domesticus, is an important model system for biomedical research. Within each chicken egg is an embryo that can be subjected to genetic and embryological manipulations. Such experimentation is relevant to human health and disease, because of the simila...
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