Embryonic - Definition and Overview

Embryos (and one tadpole) of the wrinkled frog (Rana rugosa).

For musical bands with the name "Embryo" see Embryo (band)

An embryo (Greek: έμβρυον) is an animal or a plant in its earliest stage of development.

• Plants: In botany, a plant embryo is part of a seed, consisting of precursor tissues for the leaves, stem (see hypocotyl), and root (see radicle), as well as one or more cotyledons. Once the embryo begins to germinate — grow out from the seed — it is called a seedling.

• Animals: The embryo of vertebrates is defined as the stages between the first division of the zygote (a fertilized ovum) until it becomes a fetus. An embryo is called a fetus at a more advanced stage of development and up until birth or hatching. In humans, this is from the eighth week after outward

• Stages: morula-> blastula->gastrula.

See also

• Embryogenesis
• embryology
• in vitro fertilization
• Plant embryogenesis

A chick embryo of thirty-three hours' incubation

External link

• chart of human development (http://www.genefaith.org/ethgen/pages/databases/resources/humdevchart.html)

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