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  2. Eggshell - Wikipedia

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    This chicken egg has been soaked in vinegar for a few days and has become translucent and flexible. Anatomy of a chicken egg. The bird egg is a fertilized gamete (or, in the case of some birds, such as chickens, possibly unfertilized) located on the yolk surface and surrounded by albumen, or egg white. The albumen in turn is surrounded by two ...

  3. Egg - Wikipedia

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    Six commercial chicken eggs — view from the top against a white background. An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

  4. Allantois - Wikipedia

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    The allantois (/ ə ˈ l æ n t oʊ ɪ s / a-LAN-toe-iss; [1] pl.: allantoides or allantoises) is one the extraembryonic membranes arising from the yolk sac.It is a hollow sac-like structure filled with clear fluid that forms part of the developing conceptus in an amniote that helps the embryo exchange gases and handle liquid waste.

  5. Vitelline membrane - Wikipedia

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    In the chicken egg, the yolk is separated from the albumen by the vitelline membrane which acts as a barrier to microbial infection. [7] Apart from the 13 proteins identified [ 4 ] to make up the membrane, the proteins that are key to providing antimicrobial properties to the membrane are the vitelline outer membrane proteins (VMO) 1 [ 8 ] and ...

  6. Blastoderm - Wikipedia

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    In chicken eggs, the blastoderm represents a flat disc after embryonic fertilization. [3] At the edge of the blastoderm is the site of active migration by most cells. [4] DNA repair genes are highly expressed in chicken blastoderms. [5]

  7. Egg incubation - Wikipedia

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    Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Egg incubation is done under favorable environmental conditions, possibly by brooding and hatching the egg.

  8. Yolk - Wikipedia

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    The yolk of a chicken egg Diagram of a fish egg; the yolk is the area which is marked 'C'. Among animals which produce eggs, the yolk (/ ˈ j oʊ k /; also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo.

  9. Eggs as food - Wikipedia

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    A fried chicken egg, sunny side up Scrambled eggs served with ham and toast. Chicken eggs are widely used in many types of dishes, both sweet and savory, including many baked goods. Some of the most common preparation methods include scrambled, fried, poached, hard-boiled, soft-boiled, omelettes, and pickled.