Bios 325 33-Hour Chick Embryo Term List

Developmental Biology Online

Here is the list of terms you are responsible to identify. Remember that you not only need to identify them but know the characteristics such as origin and derivatives of each structure. Find each structure in whole mount and transverse (cross) sections and trace them from anterior to posterior sections to familiarize yourself with the structure at different levels of the embryo.

 

Whole mount:

1.area vasculosa

2.area pellucida

3.blood islands

4.vitelline veins

5.somites

6.neural tube

7.neural groove

8.neural folds

9.primitive ridges

10.primitive groove

11.primitive streak

12.optic vesicles

13.telencephalon + diencephalon = prosencephalon

14.mesencephalon

15.metencephalon + myelencephalon = rhombencepahlon

16.neuromeres

17.infundibulum

18.anterior (cranial) intestinal portal

19.heart

Serial sections:

1.telencephalon

2.diencephalon

3.mesencephalon

4.metencephalon

5.myelencephalon

6.optic vesicles

7.infundibulum

8.notochord

9.roof plate

10.floor plate

11.neural crest

12.neural folds and groove

13.primitive streak

14.primitive grooove

15.primitive ridges

16.foregut

17.oral membrane

18.thyroid rudiment

19.anterior (cranial) intestinal portal

20.somites

20A. first aortic arch

21.ventral aorta

22.dorsal aorta

23.bulbus cordis

24.endocardium

25.myocardium

26.ventricle

27.pericardial cavity

28.skin ectoderm

29.somatic mesoderm + ectoderm = somatopluere

30.splanchnic mesoderm + endoderm = splanchnopluere

31.segmental plate

32.head mesenchyme