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FERTILIZATION & EARLY DEVELOPMENT LAB

Exercise 60

complete pages 487-493

This lab is to allow you to become familiar with the series of changes that occur after fertilization of the oocyte. Look at and label with sticky paper the full size models.

secondary oocyte

sperm

Morula

cleavage

yolk sac

zona pellucida

head

Blastocyst

placenta

maternal side and fetal side

amnion

corpus radiata

midpiece

inner cell mass

umbilical artery & vein

chorionic villi

polar body

tail

trophoblast

embryonic disc

 

This material will appear on your practical so you will want to view all models and know the location of all of the listed structures

There are schematics of developmental histology in Exercise 60 and you can use the histology cards and atlas in the front of the room. We will not be looking at slides. Instead you will draw images from the histology cards and models. I want you to draw and label each of the following.

IN THIS ORDER

secondary oocyte

o       zona pellucida

o       corona radiate

 

(instead of single urchin egg)

sperm

o       head

o       midpiece

o       tail

(instead of fertilized egg)

 

2 cell cleavage

 

4 cell cleavage

 

 

Morula

 

(instead of 8-cell sea urchin)

blastocyst

o       inner cell mass

o       trophoblast

(instead of 16 cell sea urchin)